Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 13
So the peasant put the pike back into the water, went to his hut, sat down at the table and said:
Who acts: peasant · What happens: put back, go, sit down, say · To what, where: pike, water, hut, table · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pike | det |
| 6 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 hut | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hut | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 sat | compound:prt |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 table | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 table | det |
| 21 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put back | infinitive | the peasant | the pike | the water | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pike=Goal | |||
| 2 | go | past | peasant's hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | sit down | past | the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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