Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 58
One sheet broke, then he took a second and a third; and after the third broke he was taking the fourth.
Who acts: One sheet, sheet · What happens: break, take · To what, where: fourth
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 (One sheet, sheet), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sheet | nummod |
| 2 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 took | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 broke | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 second | det |
| 9 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 third | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 third | det |
| 12 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 second | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 broke | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 broke | cc |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 third | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 third | det |
| 17 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 broke | obl |
| 18 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 broke | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 taking | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 taking | aux |
| 21 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 broke | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fourth | det |
| 23 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taking | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | One sheet | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | take | past | sheet | then; second | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | break | past | One sheet not said here | after the third | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | past · progressive | sheet | the fourth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fourth=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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