Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 15
Darkness now came on, and the merchant’s daughter went into the bedroom, wishing to lie down and sleep.
Who acts: Darkness, daughter · What happens: come on, go, wish, lie down, sleep · To what, where: bedroom
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 (Darkness, daughter), 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 | Darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 merchant | det |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 merchant | case |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 bedroom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bedroom | det |
| 14 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wishing | punct |
| 16 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 went | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 lie | mark |
| 18 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wishing | xcomp |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 lie | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sleep | cc |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lie | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past | Darkness | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the merchant's daughter | the bedroom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bedroom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | wish | gerund | the merchant's daughter not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lie down not said to happen | to-infinitive | the merchant's daughter not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sleep | present | the merchant's daughter not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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