Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 132
He proceeds to the Kingdom by the Sea, finds the miserable hut, enters it, and sees the maiden lying in the dung.
Who acts: hold · What happens: proceed, find, enter, see · To what, where: miserable hut, hut, maiden lying, dung
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hold), 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 proceeds | nsubj |
| 2 | proceeds | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Kingdom | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Kingdom | det |
| 5 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 proceeds | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sea | det |
| 8 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 proceeds | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 finds | punct |
| 10 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 proceeds | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hut | det |
| 12 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hut | amod |
| 13 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finds | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 enters | punct |
| 15 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 finds | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 enters | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sees | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sees | cc |
| 19 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 proceeds | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lying | det |
| 21 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lying | amod |
| 22 | lying | lying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sees | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 dung | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dung | det |
| 25 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sees | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 proceeds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | present | hold | to the Kingdom; by the Sea | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | present | the miserable hut | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Topic | |||||
| 3 | enter | present | hut | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | |||||
| 4 | see | present | hold not said here | the maiden lying | the dung | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lying=Stimulus |
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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