Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 106
At last he tore his way out through a crack in the dough and scampered off without looking behind him.
Who acts: Tsarévna · What happens: tore out, scamper off, look · To what, where: way, last
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tore | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tore | nsubj |
| 4 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tore | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 tore | advmod |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 crack | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crack | det |
| 10 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tore | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 dough | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dough | det |
| 13 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crack | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 scampered | cc |
| 15 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tore | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 scampered | compound:prt |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 looking | mark |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 scampered | advcl |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looking | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tore out | past | Tsarévna | Tsarévna's way | last | through a crack in the dough; out property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | scamper off | participle | Tsarévna not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Tsarévna not said here | behind Tsarévna | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=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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