Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 100
So the manx-wolf lay at the bottom, and all the seven wolves went after the others and climbed up.
Who acts: manx wolf, seven wolves · What happens: lay, go, climb up · To what, where: bottom
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 (manx wolf, seven wolves), 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 | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolf | det |
| 3 | manx | manx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wolf | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 manx | punct |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 bottom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bottom | det |
| 9 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 wolves | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wolves | det |
| 14 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 wolves | nummod |
| 15 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | parataxis |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 others | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 others | det |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 climbed | cc |
| 21 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 climbed | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the manx wolf | the bottom | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at bottom=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go | past | all seven wolves | after the others | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | climb up | past | all seven wolves not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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