Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 53
But he had gone only some dozen paces, when a flame blazed out and lit up the wood.
Who acts: Cossack, flame · What happens: go, blaze out, lit up · To what, where: dozen paces, wood
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 (Cossack, flame), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 gone | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 dozen | advmod |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 dozen | det |
| 7 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 paces | nummod |
| 8 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gone | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blazed | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 blazed | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flame | det |
| 12 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blazed | nsubj |
| 13 | blazed | blaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 gone | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 blazed | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lit | cc |
| 16 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 blazed | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 lit | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lit | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Cossack | dozen paces | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blaze out | participle | a flame | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lit up | participle | a flame not said here | the wood | tree rules |
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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