Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 40
So the merchant’s son listened, and as soon as ever the dog crossed the threshold it was torn into small atoms.
Who acts: son, dog, threshold · What happens: listen, cross, tear · To what, where: threshold, dog, small atoms
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, dog, threshold), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 listened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 merchant | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 listened | nsubj |
| 6 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crossed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crossed | cc |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 crossed | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 dog | case |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 dog | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dog | det |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crossed | nsubj |
| 15 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 listened | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 threshold | det |
| 17 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crossed | obj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 torn | aux:pass |
| 20 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 threshold | acl:relcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 atoms | case |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 atoms | amod |
| 23 | atoms | atom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 torn | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the merchant's son | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cross | past | the dog | the threshold | soon property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threshold=Patient | |||
| 3 | tear | past · passive | the threshold not said here | dog | into small atoms result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into atom=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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