Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 95
So she blessed him, and he went on and on for very many weary miles, and met the old man on the tree, who gave him another rolling-pin: and the pin rolled up to the mountain; and both were lost, pin and Prince!
Who acts: life, Prince, tree · What happens: bless, go, meet, give, roll up, lose · To what, where: Prince, old man, tree, rolling pin, pin, mountain
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 (life, Prince, tree), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 blessed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blessed | nsubj |
| 3 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blessed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blessed | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 on | cc |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 on | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 miles | case |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 many | advmod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 miles | amod |
| 15 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 miles | amod |
| 16 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 met | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 met | cc |
| 19 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blessed | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 met | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 met | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gave | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 gave | nsubj |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 tree | acl:relcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gave | iobj |
| 30 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 pin | det |
| 31 | rolling | rolling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pin | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 rolling | punct |
| 33 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | obj |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 rolled | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 rolled | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 pin | det |
| 37 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 blessed | parataxis |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 rolled | compound:prt |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 mountain | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 mountain | det |
| 42 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rolled | obl |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 lost | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 lost | cc |
| 45 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 lost | aux:pass |
| 47 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 blessed | parataxis |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 pin | punct |
| 49 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 lost | obj |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 Prince | cc |
| 51 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 lost | conj |
| 52 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 blessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | past | life | Prince | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Prince | for many weary miles | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for mile=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | life not said here | the old man | the tree | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | give | past | the tree | another rolling pin | Prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pin=Theme | |||
| 5 | roll up | participle · passive | the pin | the mountain | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to mountain=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | lose | past · passive | both | pin obj; Prince conj | tree rules |
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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