Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 54

And he sat down in a house as a stay-at-home for thirty years, and after the thirty years had gone by he began to walk on his feet mightily, and he gained great strength.

Who acts: peasant · What happens: sit down, go, begin, walk, gain · To what, where: house, feet, great strength

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 (peasant), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 sat	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	14 home	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stay	det
10	stay	stay	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 home	nsubj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 home	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 home	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 at	punct
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 years	case
16	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gone	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gone	cc
20	after	after	ADP	_	23 years	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 years	det
22	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 years	nummod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 gone	obl
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gone	aux
25	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sat	conj
26	by	by	SCONJ	_	28 began	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 began	nsubj
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gone	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 walk	mark
30	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 feet	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 feet	nmod:poss
33	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 walk	obl
34	mightily	mightily	ADV	_	30 walk	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gained	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 gained	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 gained	nsubj
38	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	parataxis
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 strength	amod
40	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gained	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	peasant		a house	year	as home a stay	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location
2	go	past · perfect	peasant not said here			year		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	peasant					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	walk	to-infinitive	peasant not said here		peasant's feet		mightily property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory
5	gain	past	peasant	great strength				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme

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 31, sentence 54

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 54