Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 90
The pin rolled on, and after it walked the Prince: it rolled up to a steep hill, and was lost.
Who acts: pin · What happens: roll on, walk, roll up, lose · To what, where: pin, Prince, steep hill
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 (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 | 2 pin | det |
| 2 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pin | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 rolled | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 walked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 walked | cc |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 walked | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 walked | nsubj |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 walked | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 rolled | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rolled | nsubj |
| 14 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 walked | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 rolled | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 hill | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hill | det |
| 18 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hill | amod |
| 19 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rolled | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lost | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lost | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | aux:pass |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 rolled | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll on | participle | the pin not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | the pin | the Prince | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location prince=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roll up | past | pin | a steep hill | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hill=Destination | ||||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | pin not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |
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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