Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 51
He burst out by sheer force and galloped away at full speed, and never once looked round.
Who acts: Bull · What happens: burst out, gallop away, not look round · To what, where: full speed
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 (Bull), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 burst | nsubj |
| 2 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 burst | compound:prt |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 force | case |
| 5 | sheer | sheer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 force | amod |
| 6 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 burst | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 galloped | cc |
| 8 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 burst | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 galloped | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 speed | case |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 speed | amod |
| 12 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 galloped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 looked | advmod |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 looked | advmod |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 burst | conj |
| 18 | round | round | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst out | past | Bull | by sheer force | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by force=Location | ||||
| 2 | gallop away | past | Bull not said here | full speed | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | not look round | participle | Bull not said here | once, round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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