Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 148
So the old man went into the bath, and the Moon twisted his little finger into a chink, and it was quite light in the bathroom.
Who acts: old man, Moon, bath · What happens: go, twist, be · To what, where: bath, little finger, chink, light, bathroom
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 (old man, Moon, bath), 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 | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 bath | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bath | det |
| 8 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 twisted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 twisted | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Moon | det |
| 12 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 twisted | nsubj |
| 13 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 finger | nmod:poss |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 finger | amod |
| 16 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 twisted | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 chink | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 chink | det |
| 19 | chink | chink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 twisted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 light | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 light | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 light | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 light | cop |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 light | advmod |
| 25 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 twisted | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 bathroom | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bathroom | det |
| 28 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 light | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old man | the bath | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bath=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | twist | past | the Moon | man's little finger | a chink | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent finger=Theme into chink=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is a | past | bath | light | the bathroom | 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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