Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 4
The knight struck Donotknow so doughtily that he could hardly hold on by one stirrup.
Who acts: knight · What happens: strike, hold on · To what, where: Donotknow
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 (knight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Donotknow | Donotknow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 doughtily | advmod |
| 6 | doughtily | doughtily | ADV | _ | 3 struck | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 hold | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hold | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hold | aux |
| 10 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 11 hold | advmod |
| 11 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 struck | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hold | compound:prt |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 stirrup | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 stirrup | nummod |
| 15 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hold | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the knight | Donotknow | doughtily property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent donotknow=Instrument | |||
| 2 | hold on | could | knight | by one stirrup; hardly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by stirrup=Location |
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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