Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 53
They searched and searched for the Tsarévich, dragging the ponds.
Who acts: people · What happens: search, drag · To what, where: ponds
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 searched | cc |
| 4 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 searched | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Tsarévich | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tsarévich | det |
| 7 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 searched | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dragging | punct |
| 9 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 searched | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ponds | det |
| 11 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dragging | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | people | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | search | past | people not said here | for the Tsarévich | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for tsarévich=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drag | gerund | people not said here | the ponds | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pond=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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