Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 154

And the old man saw how the Moon had lit the place up for him, and he went and bored a tiny hole in the bathroom and thrust his finger through it.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: see, lit up, go, bore · To what, where: Moon, tiny hole, bathroom · Speech: someone speaks here

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, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 saw	cc
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 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 lit	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 lit	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lit	aux
10	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 saw	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lit	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	10 lit	compound:prt
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lit	obl:agent
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bored	cc
21	bored	bore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 went	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hole	det
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hole	amod
24	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bored	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 bathroom	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bathroom	det
27	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hole	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 thrust	cc
29	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bathroom	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 finger	nmod:poss
31	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bored	obj
32	through	through	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bored	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the old man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lit up	past · perfect · passive	man	the Moon		the place obj	tree rules
3	go	past	man				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bore	past	man not said here	a tiny hole	the bathroom and thrust	through finger	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus hole=Experiencer finger=Result

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 154

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 154