Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 16
From that time she began to walk into the garden and to gaze on Donotknow, and became thoughtful, never giving heed to the festivals and to the merriment.
Who acts: monster · What happens: begin, walk, gaze, become, not give · To what, where: garden, heed, festivals
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monster), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 walk | mark |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walk | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gaze | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 gaze | mark |
| 13 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 walk | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Donotknow | case |
| 15 | Donotknow | Donotknow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 gaze | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 became | cc |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | conj |
| 19 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 became | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 giving | punct |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 giving | advmod |
| 22 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 became | advcl |
| 23 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 giving | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 festivals | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 festivals | det |
| 26 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 giving | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 merriment | cc |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 merriment | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 merriment | det |
| 30 | merriment | merriment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 festivals | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | monster | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | monster not said here | into the garden result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result | ||||
| 3 | gaze | to-infinitive | monster not said here | on Donotknow | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on donotknow=Theme | ||||
| 4 | become | past | monster not said here | thoughtful property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not give | gerund | monster not said here | heed | the festivals and the merriment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to festival=Recipient |
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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