Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 103
All the seven wolves tumbled down and chased after him, caught him up, and tore him to bits.
Who acts: seven wolves · What happens: tumble down, chase, catch up, tore · To what, where: seven wolves, TAILOR
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 (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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 wolves | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wolves | det |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 wolves | nummod |
| 4 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wolves | acl |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 tumbled | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 chased | cc |
| 8 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tumbled | conj |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 chased | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wolves | punct |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 caught | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 caught | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tore | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tore | cc |
| 17 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 caught | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tore | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bits | case |
| 20 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tore | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tumble down | participle | all seven wolves not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | chase | participle | after TAILOR | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch up | past | all seven wolves | TAILOR | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tore | past | all seven wolves not said here | TAILOR | to bits | 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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