Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 116

He covered the fields entirely, but a storm arose at night, and mighty winds blew, and wafted all the corn from his land away on to the other fields.

Who acts: peasant, storm, mighty winds · What happens: cover, arise, blow, waft · To what, where: fields, corn, land

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 (peasant, storm, mighty winds), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 covered	nsubj
2	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fields	det
4	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 covered	obj
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	2 covered	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 arose	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 arose	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 storm	det
9	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arose	nsubj
10	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 covered	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arose	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 blew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 blew	cc
15	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 winds	amod
16	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 blew	nsubj
17	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 covered	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wafted	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wafted	cc
20	wafted	waft	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 covered	conj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 corn	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 corn	det
23	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wafted	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 land	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 land	nmod:poss
26	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wafted	obl
27	away	away	ADV	_	28 on	advmod
28	on	on	ADV	_	20 wafted	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 fields	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fields	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fields	amod
32	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wafted	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past	peasant	the fields			entirely property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent field=Destination
2	arise	past	a storm			night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	blow	past	mighty winds					vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	waft	past	peasant not said here	all corn	peasant's land		to the other fields	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location corn=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 116

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 116