Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 85
Then the boat came to the seashore, and a ship came to meet it with all its sails spread.
Who acts: boat, ship, sails · What happens: come, meet, spread · To what, where: seashore, boat
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 (boat, ship, sails), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 seashore | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seashore | det |
| 7 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 came | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | obj |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 20 spread | mark |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 sails | det:predet |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sails | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spread | nsubj |
| 20 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 meet | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the boat | the seashore | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seashore=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | a ship | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | a ship not said here | boat | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | spread | present | boat's sails | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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