Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 12
Time went by and went by, and the fair damsel became hungry and thought, “Oh, if I could only have something to eat!”
Who acts: fair damsel · What happens: go by, become, think, have, eat · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair damsel), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 went | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 became | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 damsel | det |
| 10 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 damsel | amod |
| 11 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 13 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 became | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 18 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 24 have | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Oh | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 have | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | aux |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 have | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 have | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 eat | mark |
| 27 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 something | acl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go by | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | become | past | the fair damsel | hungry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | the fair damsel not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | could | the fair damsel = damsel | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 6 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | the fair damsel = damsel not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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