Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 136
He accepted her gift and laid hold of her hand, dragged her into the barrow, and cried out to the blind man, who ran away so fast, faster than any horses could overtake him.
Who acts: God, blind man, horses, daughter · What happens: accept, lay, drag, cry out, run away, overtake · To what, where: gift, hold, daughter, barrow, blind man, God
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 (God, blind man, horses, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 accepted | nsubj |
| 2 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 gift | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 accepted | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 laid | cc |
| 6 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 accepted | conj |
| 7 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hold | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dragged | punct |
| 12 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 accepted | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dragged | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 barrow | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 barrow | det |
| 16 | barrow | barrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dragged | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cried | cc |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 accepted | parataxis |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 cried | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ran | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 ran | nsubj |
| 27 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 man | acl:relcl |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 ran | advmod |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 fast | advmod |
| 30 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 ran | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 faster | punct |
| 32 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 cried | conj |
| 33 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 37 overtake | mark |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 horses | det |
| 35 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 overtake | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 overtake | aux |
| 37 | overtake | overtake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 faster | advcl |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 overtake | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | God | daughter's gift | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | God not said here | hold of daughter's hand | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | ||||
| 3 | drag | past | God not said here | daughter | the barrow | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | past | the blind man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | run away | past | the blind man | away, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | overtake | could | any horses | God | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | gift | daughter | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | hold | daughter's hand | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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