Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 63
As soon as ever the merchant’s son put it on the boy he that very instant closed his eyes and fell on the floor, as though he were dead.
Who acts: son · What happens: put, close, fall, be · To what, where: bath, eyes, floor
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), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 put | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 ever | case |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 soon | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 merchant | det |
| 6 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 merchant | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | nsubj |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 boy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 closed | nsubj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 closed | nsubj |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 instant | advmod |
| 17 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 closed | xcomp |
| 18 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 closed | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 closed | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 floor | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 floor | det |
| 25 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dead | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 dead | mark |
| 28 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 31 dead | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 dead | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 dead | cop |
| 31 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fell | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the merchant's son | bath | ever | on the boy; soon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on boy=Destination | ||
| 2 | close | past | son | son's eyes | that nsubj; instant property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 3 | fall | past | son not said here | the floor | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | son | dead property | tree rules |
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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