Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 105
The pigs turned him over and over, and he could not escape for three whole days.
Who acts: pigs, Tsarévna · What happens: turn, not escape · To what, where: Tsarévna
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pigs, Tsarévna), 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 pigs | det |
| 2 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 over | cc |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 over | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 escape | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 escape | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 escape | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 escape | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 escape | advmod |
| 13 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 days | nummod |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 days | amod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 escape | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the pigs | Tsarévna | over property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | not escape | could | Tsarévna | day | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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