Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 134
When the daughter looked out of the window she instantly rushed out in order to give them alms.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: look out, rush out, give · To what, where: window, order, alms, merchant
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 (daughter), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 looked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughter | det |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rushed | nsubj |
| 10 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 11 rushed | advmod |
| 11 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 rushed | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 order | case |
| 14 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rushed | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 rushed | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 give | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | the daughter | the window | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rush out | past | daughter | order | instantly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | alms | merchant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient alm=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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