Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 12
So the little devil dashed into the lake, got out a pile of gold, and instantaneously carried the soldier into the great city, and all at once he was there!
Who acts: little devil, soldier · What happens: dash, get out, carry, be · To what, where: little devil, lake, pile, soldier, great city
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 (little devil, soldier), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 devil | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 devil | amod |
| 4 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | nsubj |
| 5 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 devil | acl |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 lake | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lake | det |
| 8 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dashed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 devil | punct |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 got | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pile | det |
| 13 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pile | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carried | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 carried | cc |
| 18 | instantaneously | instantaneously | ADV | _ | 19 carried | advmod |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 soldier | det |
| 21 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 city | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 city | amod |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 all | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 all | cc |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 carried | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 once | case |
| 30 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 28 all | nmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 there | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 there | cop |
| 33 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 once | ccomp |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | participle | the little devil not said here | the lake | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into lake=Destination | ||||
| 2 | get out | past | the little devil | a pile of gold | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | the soldier | the great city | instantaneously property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | soldier | there property | 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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