Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 70
So the good youth thanked the woman, went to the seashore, hired a boat, and sailed to the thrice-tenth land.
Who acts: good youth · What happens: thank, go, hire, sail · To what, where: woman, seashore, boat, tenth land
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 (good youth), 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 | _ | 5 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 youth | amod |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thanked | nsubj |
| 5 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thanked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thanked | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 seashore | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 seashore | det |
| 12 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hired | punct |
| 14 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boat | det |
| 16 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hired | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sailed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sailed | cc |
| 19 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thanked | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 land | det |
| 22 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tenth | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 thrice | punct |
| 24 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 land | amod |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sailed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the good youth | the woman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the seashore | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seashore=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | hire | past | a boat | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sail | past | the good youth not said here | the tenth land | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to land=Trajectory |
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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