Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 6
When he came to the river, he did not dally to think; but slipped off his boots, hung them on his head, and wandered at ease till he came into the middle, stumbled and fell into the water, and was heard of no more.
Who acts: road · What happens: come, not dally, think, slip off, hang, wander · To what, where: river, boots, head, ease, middle, water
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 (road), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 slipped | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dally | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dally | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dally | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 dally | advmod |
| 11 | dally | dally | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dally | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 slipped | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 slipped | cc |
| 16 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 slipped | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 boots | nmod:poss |
| 19 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 slipped | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hung | punct |
| 21 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 slipped | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hung | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hung | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wandered | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wandered | cc |
| 28 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hung | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 ease | case |
| 30 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wandered | obl |
| 31 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 33 came | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 came | nsubj |
| 33 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 wandered | advcl |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 middle | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 middle | det |
| 36 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 came | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 stumbled | punct |
| 38 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 middle | acl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 fell | cc |
| 40 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 came | conj |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 water | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 water | det |
| 43 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fell | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 heard | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 heard | cc |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 heard | aux:pass |
| 47 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 slipped | conj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 no | case |
| 49 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 50 more | det |
| 50 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 47 heard | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | road | the river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not dally | past · do-support | road | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | road not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | slip off | past | road's boots | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent boot=Patient | |||||
| 5 | hang | past | boots = boot | road's head | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on head=Destination | ||||
| 6 | wander | past | ease | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ease=Trajectory | |||||
| 7 | come | past | road | the middle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into middle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | stumble | participle | the middle not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | fall | past | road not said here | into the water result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result | ||||
| 10 | hear | past · passive | no more | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: more=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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