Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 64
And when he took the shirt off him and cast it into the stove, the boy revived, but the stove was split into small pieces.
Who acts: son, boy · What happens: take, cast, revive, split · To what, where: shirt, stove, small pieces
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, boy), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 took | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shirt | det |
| 6 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cast | cc |
| 10 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cast | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 stove | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stove | det |
| 14 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cast | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 revived | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 revived | nsubj |
| 18 | revived | revive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stove | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 split | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 split | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stove | det |
| 22 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 split | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 split | aux:pass |
| 24 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 pieces | case |
| 26 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pieces | amod |
| 27 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 split | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | son | the shirt | off boy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme off he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | cast | past | son not said here | shirt | the stove | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into stove=Product | |||
| 3 | revive | past | the boy | the stove not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stove=Patient | ||||
| 4 | split | past · passive | the stove | into small pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into piece=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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