Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 63
So he climbed up the mountain, and the wall opened in front of him, and he arrived at a broad courtyard.
Who acts: Cossack, wall · What happens: climb up, open, arrive · To what, where: mountain, front, broad courtyard
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, wall), 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 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climbed | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 opened | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | nsubj |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 front | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 arrived | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 arrived | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 arrived | nsubj |
| 19 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 courtyard | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 courtyard | det |
| 22 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 courtyard | amod |
| 23 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 arrived | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | Cossack | the mountain | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the wall | front of Cossack | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | Cossack | a broad courtyard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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