Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 56
So they went to the barn floor, and there all the hayricks stood untouched; and they went to the granary, and all the lofts were filled to the top with corn.
Who acts: fields, hayricks · What happens: go, stand, fill · To what, where: barn floor, granary, lofts
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fields, hayricks), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 6 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 floor | compound |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 all | advmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 hayricks | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hayricks | det |
| 13 | hayricks | hayrick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | untouched | untouched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stood | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 granary | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 granary | det |
| 22 | granary | granary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 filled | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 filled | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 lofts | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lofts | det |
| 27 | lofts | loft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 filled | aux:pass |
| 29 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 went | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 top | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 top | det |
| 32 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 filled | obl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 corn | case |
| 34 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 top | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | fields = field | the barn floor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to floor=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | all hayricks | untouched property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | hayricks = hayrick | the granary | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to granary=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | fill | past · passive | all lofts | to the top with corn | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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