Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 71

So the wolf went and stood on the hill and opened his mouth for the food, and the ram ran down and hit him hard with the horns on his forehead—_whack_!

Who acts: wolf, ram · What happens: go, stand, open, run down, hit · To what, where: whack, hill, mouth, Lord

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, ram), 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stood	cc
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 hill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hill	det
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 opened	cc
11	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mouth	nmod:poss
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 food	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 food	det
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ran	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ram	det
20	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ran	nsubj
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 ran	compound:prt
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hit	cc
24	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hit	obj
26	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 hit	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 horns	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 horns	det
29	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hit	obl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 forehead	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 forehead	nmod:poss
32	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hit	obl
33	—	-	PUNCT	_	35 whack	punct
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	35 whack	punct
35	whack	whack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
36	_	_	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the wolf	whack			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	the wolf not said here		the hill		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location
3	open	past	the wolf not said here	Lord's mouth		for the food	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
4	run down	past	the ram				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hit	past	the wolf not said here	Lord		with the horns; on Lord's forehead; hard property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on forehead=Patient

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 71