Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 89
The old man gave him a rolling-pin, and told him to let it roll on in front of him, and follow wherever it went.
Who acts: old man, pin · What happens: give, tell, let, roll on, follow, go · To what, where: rolling pin, few, pin, front · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old man, pin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pin | det |
| 7 | rolling | rolling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pin | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 rolling | punct |
| 9 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 let | mark |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | xcomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 roll | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 front | case |
| 20 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 roll | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 front | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 follow | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 follow | cc |
| 25 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | conj |
| 26 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 went | advmod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 follow | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the old man | a rolling pin | few | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pin=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the old man not said here | few | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | pin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | roll on | infinitive | pin not said here | front of few | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | follow | infinitive | the old man not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go | past | pin | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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