Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 46
As the Wolf went in the Bull gored him to the wall with his horns, the Ram sat on his sides and the Pig tore him to atoms, while the Goose flew on to him and picked out his eyes.
Who acts: Wolf, Ram, Pig, Goose · What happens: go, gore, sit, tore, fly on, pick out · To what, where: Wolf, horns, sides, eyes
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, Ram, Pig, Goose), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wolf | det |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gored | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Bull | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bull | det |
| 7 | Bull | Bull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | gored | gore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gored | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 wall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wall | det |
| 12 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gored | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 horns | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horns | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wall | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sat | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Ram | det |
| 18 | Ram | Ram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | nsubj |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 horns | acl:relcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 sides | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sides | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sat | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tore | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Pig | det |
| 25 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tore | nsubj |
| 26 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sat | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 tore | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 atoms | case |
| 29 | atoms | atom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 tore | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 flew | punct |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 34 flew | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Goose | det |
| 33 | Goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 flew | nsubj |
| 34 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gored | parataxis |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 flew | compound:prt |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 flew | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 picked | cc |
| 39 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 flew | conj |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 picked | compound:prt |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 42 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 picked | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Wolf | in the Bull | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bull=Location | ||||
| 2 | gore | past | Wolf | to the wall with Wolf's horns | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | the Ram | Wolf's horns not said here | Wolf's sides | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme on side=Location | |||
| 4 | tore | past | the Pig | Wolf | to atoms | tree rules | |||
| 5 | fly on | past | the Goose | Wolf | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 6 | pick out | past | the Goose not said here | Wolf's eyes | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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