Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 118
In his haste the blind man struck the tree so hard with his forehead that it fell out with its roots.
Who acts: blind man, tree · What happens: strike, fall out · To what, where: tree, haste
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blind man, tree), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 haste | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 haste | nmod:poss |
| 3 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | nsubj |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 hard | advmod |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 struck | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 forehead | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 14 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 fell | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 struck | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 fell | compound:prt |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 roots | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 roots | nmod:poss |
| 21 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the blind man | the tree | fox's haste | with fox's forehead; hard property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tree=Patient with forehead=Instrument | ||
| 2 | fall out | past | tree | with tree's roots | vn occur-48.3 «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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