Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 43
So the barrel turned round and got on to a dry spot, and they went on, following their eyes.
Who acts: barrel, sorts · What happens: turn round, get on, go on, follow · To what, where: eyes
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 (barrel, sorts), 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 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 barrel | det |
| 3 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 spot | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 spot | det |
| 11 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spot | amod |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 following | punct |
| 19 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 went | advcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 following | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past | the barrel | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get on | past | the barrel not said here | to a dry spot result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to spot=Result | ||||
| 3 | go on | past | sorts = sort | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | sorts = sort not said here | sorts's eyes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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