Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 94
Then he went back and heard a splendid folk-song in the house, stayed a while, and went on to another house where there also was singing.
Who acts: St. · What happens: go back, hear, stay, go on, sing · To what, where: splendid folk song, house
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 (St.), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 heard | cc |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 song | det |
| 8 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 song | amod |
| 9 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 song | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 folk | punct |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stayed | punct |
| 16 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 while | det |
| 18 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stayed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stayed | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 singing | advmod |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 singing | expl |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 30 singing | advmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 singing | aux |
| 30 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 house | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | St. | then | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | St. not said here | a splendid folk song | the house | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | stay | past | St. not said here | while | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go on | past | St. not said here | to another house | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | there | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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