Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 23
Next day Petrúsha went to pay a visit to the Devil—went on and went on for three whole days; and he got into a deep wood—into the dreary and darksome forest where he could not see the sky.
Who acts: Petrúsha · What happens: go, pay, go on, get, not see · To what, where: visit, deep wood, sky
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 (Petrúsha), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Petrúsha | Petrúsha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pay | mark |
| 6 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 visit | det |
| 8 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pay | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Devil | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Devil | det |
| 11 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 visit | nmod |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 went | compound:prt |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 days | case |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 days | nummod |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 days | amod |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 got | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 got | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 got | nsubj |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 wood | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 wood | det |
| 28 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wood | amod |
| 29 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obl |
| 30 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 forest | punct |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 forest | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 forest | det |
| 33 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 forest | amod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 darksome | cc |
| 35 | darksome | darksome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 dreary | conj |
| 36 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obl |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 see | advmod |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 see | nsubj |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 see | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 see | advmod |
| 41 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 forest | acl:relcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 sky | det |
| 43 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 see | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Petrúsha | day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | Petrúsha not said here | a visit | to the Devil | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | |||
| 3 | go on | past | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go on | past | day | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get | past | Petrúsha | a deep wood | into the dreary forest | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location into forest=Destination | |||
| 6 | not see | could | Petrúsha | the sky | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sky=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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