Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 89
This suited Sorrow down to the ground, and at first the merchant hid and Sorrow found him at once.
Who acts: suited Sorrow, Sorrow · What happens: suit, hide, find · To what, where: unbearable
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 (suited Sorrow, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Sorrow | det |
| 2 | suited | suit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Sorrow | amod |
| 3 | Sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hid | nsubj |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 ground | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Sorrow | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hid | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hid | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 first | case |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 hid | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 merchant | det |
| 13 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hid | nsubj |
| 14 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 16 | Sorrow | Sorrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hid | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 found | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | hide | past | this suited Sorrow to the ground | the merchant nsubj | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at first=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Sorrow | unbearable | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at once=Asset |
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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