Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 123
Little boat, little boat, sail far away, O’er the blue water away and away.
To what, where: Little boat
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 boat | amod |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 boat | punct |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boat | amod |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boat | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sail | punct |
| 7 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boat | conj |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 sail | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 O’er | punct |
| 11 | O’er | O'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boat | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 water | amod |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 O’er | appos |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 O’er | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 away | cc |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 away | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 boat | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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