Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 179
The grandfather clattered up into the loft and found Iváshechko.
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: clatter up, find · To what, where: loft, Iváshechko
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: who acts (grandfather), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 grandfather | det |
| 2 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clattered | nsubj |
| 3 | clattered | clatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 clattered | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 loft | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 loft | det |
| 7 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clattered | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clattered | conj |
| 10 | Iváshechko | Iváshechko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clatter up | past | the grandfather | the loft | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into loft=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the grandfather not said here | Iváshechko | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iváshechko=Topic |
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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