Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 88
So the tailor went back, took hold of the wolf by his tail, twined his tail round in his hand, and began to whip the wolf.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: go back, take, twine, begin, whip, hold · To what, where: hold, tail, hand, 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 (tailor), 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 tailor | det |
| 3 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wolf | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wolf | det |
| 11 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hold | nmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 tail | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tail | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 twined | punct |
| 16 | twined | twine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tail | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 twined | obj |
| 19 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 twined | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 twined | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 began | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 began | cc |
| 25 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 whip | mark |
| 27 | whip | whip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 began | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wolf | det |
| 29 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 whip | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the tailor | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the tailor not said here | hold of the wolf | by TAILOR's tail | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 3 | twine | past | the tailor not said here | TAILOR's tail | TAILOR's hand | round property | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | ||
| 4 | begin | past | the tailor not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | whip | to-infinitive | the tailor not said here | the wolf | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent wolf=Material | ||||
| 6 | hold | the wolf | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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