Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 76

Time went by, may-be little, may-be much.

What happens: go by, be

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: 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	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl:unmarked
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	2 went	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 little	punct
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 little	aux
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 little	punct
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 little	cop
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 much	punct
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 much	aux
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 much	punct
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 much	cop
13	much	much	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	when	other	roles by
1	go by	past	time		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	may		little property	tree rules
3	is	may		much 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 76

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 76