Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 5
But somehow she could not find her daughter, and thought she had gone away to another cottage to weave.
Who acts: Búra · What happens: not find, think, go away, weave · To what, where: daughter, cottage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Búra), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 find | cc |
| 2 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 6 find | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 find | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 find | advmod |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | conj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | aux |
| 14 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 gone | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 cottage | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 cottage | det |
| 18 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gone | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 weave | mark |
| 20 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 gone | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | could | Búra | Búra's daughter | somehow property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Búra not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go away | past · perfect | Búra | another cottage | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | weave | to-infinitive | Búra not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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