Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 82
So the next time he went out to his courtyard and up to the well, sampled it, and looked.
Who acts: man · What happens: go out, sample, look · To what, where: well
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 (man), 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 | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 courtyard | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 courtyard | nmod:poss |
| 10 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sampled | cc |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 sampled | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 well | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 well | det |
| 15 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sampled | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 well | punct |
| 17 | sampled | sample | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sampled | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 looked | cc |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | man | time | to man's courtyard; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | sample | past | man not said here | well | to the well | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | past | man not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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