Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 113
Then the rich peasant began to think: “Heigh-ho!
Who acts: rich peasant · What happens: begin, think · To what, where: Heigh ho
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich peasant), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 peasant | det |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 peasant | amod |
| 4 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 ho | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ho | punct |
| 10 | Heigh | Heigh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ho | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Heigh | punct |
| 12 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the rich peasant | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the rich peasant not said here | Heigh ho | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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