Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 10
As he was going on his way, in front of him there was a woman crawling along, going slowly, slowly, stumbling on the reeds, and scolding hard: “What the devil knocks you against me!”
Who acts: father, woman, devil · What happens: go, be, crawl, stumble, scold, knock · To what, where: way, reeds, you
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, woman, devil), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 going | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 scolding | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 front | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 front | case |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 front | nmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | crawling | crawl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 woman | acl |
| 18 | along | along | ADV | _ | 17 crawling | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 crawling | conj |
| 21 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 20 going | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 slowly | punct |
| 23 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 20 going | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stumbling | punct |
| 25 | stumbling | stumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 crawling | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 reeds | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 reeds | det |
| 28 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stumbling | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 scolding | cc |
| 31 | scolding | scold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 32 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 scolding | advmod |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 knocks | punct |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 knocks | punct |
| 35 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 38 knocks | obj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 devil | det |
| 37 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 knocks | nsubj |
| 38 | knocks | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 scolding | conj |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 knocks | obj |
| 40 | against | against | ADP | _ | 41 me | case |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 knocks | obl |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 scolding | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 scolding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | father | father's way | in front of God | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 2 | be | past | a woman | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crawl | gerund | a woman not said here | along property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | gerund | a woman not said here | slowly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stumble | gerund | a woman not said here | the reeds | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on reed=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | scold | gerund | hard property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | knock in a quote | present | the devil | you | against road; What obj | tree rules |
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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