Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 5
So he took a small can, went to the well, and as soon as he dipped it into the water a big pike fell into it.
Who acts: Mass, big pike · What happens: take, go, dip, fall · To what, where: well, water
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 (Mass, big pike), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 can | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 can | amod |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 well | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 well | det |
| 11 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dipped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dipped | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 dipped | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 dipped | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dipped | nsubj |
| 18 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dipped | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dipped | obl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pike | det |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pike | amod |
| 25 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dipped | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fell | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Mass | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Mass not said here | the well | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | dip | past | Mass | well | the water | soon property | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into water=Destination | ||
| 4 | fall | past | a big pike | water | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into it=Result |
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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