Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 89
So Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, went whither his eyes might go, and he went and wept.
Who acts: Alyósha, eyes · What happens: go, weep
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alyósha, eyes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 2 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 3 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Alyósha | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mocker | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mocker | det |
| 6 | Mocker | Mocker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Alyósha | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Women | case |
| 8 | Women | Women | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mocker | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 go | advmod |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wept | cc |
| 21 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Alyósha and the Mocker of Women | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | might | Alyósha's eyes | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Alyósha | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | weep | past | Alyósha not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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