Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 54
But the little devil ran back into the lake, for his elder hauled him over the coals to answer for what he had done with the soldier.
Who acts: little devil, elder · What happens: run back, haul, answer, do · To what, where: lake, devil, coals
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, elder), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 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 | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 lake | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lake | det |
| 9 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hauled | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 hauled | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 elder | nmod:poss |
| 13 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hauled | nsubj |
| 14 | hauled | haul | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hauled | obj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 coals | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 coals | det |
| 18 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hauled | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 answer | mark |
| 20 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hauled | advcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 what | case |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 answer | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 done | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 done | aux |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 soldier | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 soldier | det |
| 28 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 done | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run back | past | the little devil | into the lake result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lake=Result | ||||
| 2 | haul | past | devil's elder | devil | the coals | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | devil's elder not said here | what obl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | elder | with the soldier | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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