Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 64
So the wolf went up, and she kicked him with her hoofs, and knocked out his front teeth, so that the wolf was thrown, at a blow, three _sazhéns_[13] away, and the mare ran off.
Who acts: wolf, maiden, mare · What happens: go up, kick, knock out, throw, run off · To what, where: Lord, front teeth, wolf
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 (wolf, maiden, mare), 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 | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kicked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kicked | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kicked | nsubj |
| 9 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kicked | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hoofs | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hoofs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kicked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knocked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knocked | cc |
| 16 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 knocked | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 19 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 teeth | amod |
| 20 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knocked | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 thrown | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 27 thrown | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 so | fixed |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wolf | det |
| 25 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 thrown | aux:pass |
| 27 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 knocked | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 blow | punct |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 blow | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 blow | det |
| 31 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 thrown | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 three | punct |
| 33 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 blow | appos |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 sazhéns | punct |
| 35 | sazhéns | sazhén | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 thrown | obl |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 thrown | punct |
| 37 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 38 13 | punct |
| 38 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 thrown | obl |
| 39 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 38 13 | punct |
| 40 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 thrown | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 ran | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 ran | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 mare | det |
| 44 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 ran | nsubj |
| 45 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 46 | off | off | ADP | _ | 45 ran | compound:prt |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the wolf | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | kick | past | maiden | Lord | with maiden's hoofs | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with hoof=Instrument | |||
| 3 | knock out | past | Lord's front teeth | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | |||||
| 4 | throw | past · passive | the wolf | sazhéns obl; 13 obl; a blow obj; away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination blow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | run off | past | the mare | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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