Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 12
And he took off his cap and struck him lightly on the head, and he nearly knocked through the walls of the palace, took Ídolishche’s trunk and flung it out.
Who acts: beggar · What happens: take off, strike, knock, take, fling out · To what, where: cap, beggar, walls, trunk
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar), 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 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cap | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 struck | cc |
| 8 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 struck | obj |
| 10 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 8 struck | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 head | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 struck | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knocked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knocked | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knocked | nsubj |
| 17 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 18 knocked | advmod |
| 18 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 walls | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 walls | det |
| 21 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 knocked | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 walls | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 took | punct |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 knocked | conj |
| 27 | Ídolishche | Ídolishche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Ídolishche | case |
| 29 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 flung | cc |
| 31 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 took | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 flung | obj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 flung | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | beggar | beggar's cap | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | beggar not said here | beggar | on the head; lightly property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on head=Patient | |||
| 3 | knock | past | beggar | the walls of the palace | nearly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wall=Location | |||
| 4 | take | past | beggar not said here | Ídolishche's trunk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fling out | past | beggar not said here | trunk | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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