Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 76
He brought Sorrow with him home, and his household went from bad to worse.
Who acts: Sorrow, household · What happens: bring, go · To what, where: Sorrow, bad
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, household), 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 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sorrow | Sorrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obl |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 brought | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 household | nmod:poss |
| 10 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 bad | case |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 worse | case |
| 15 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Sorrow | Sorrow | with brother; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sorrow=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | Sorrow's household | bad | to worse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from bad=Initial_Location to bad=Destination |
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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