Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 63
He whirled it off to the side and bowed down to see what was under the stone.
Who acts: Sorrow · What happens: whirl off, bow down, see, be · To what, where: stone, side · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sorrow), 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 whirled | nsubj |
| 2 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 whirled | obj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 whirled | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whirled | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bowed | cc |
| 9 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 whirled | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 bowed | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bowed | advcl |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 stone | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stone | cop |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 stone | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stone | det |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whirled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whirl off | past | Sorrow | stone | the side | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme to side=Destination | |||
| 2 | bow down | past | Sorrow not said here | down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Sorrow not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the stone | what nsubj | tree rules |
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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