Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 86
And when the feast had passed by the water in the poor peasant’s well was as pure as ever, just as if nothing had happened.
Who acts: water, nothing · What happens: pass, be, happen · To what, where: feast
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 (water, nothing), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 passed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 passed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 feast | det |
| 4 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | aux |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 peasant | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 peasant | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 peasant | amod |
| 13 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 peasant | case |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 pure | advmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 pure | cop |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 pure | advmod |
| 18 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 passed | parataxis |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 ever | case |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 pure | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 happened | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 happened | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 happened | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 happened | mark |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 happened | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 happened | aux |
| 27 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 passed | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | the water | the feast | in the poor peasant | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in peasant=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | pure, well property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | happen a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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