Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 125
The boys went out of the wood on the broad road, and went whither their eyes gazed—maybe far, maybe short, they went.
Who acts: boys, eyes · What happens: go out, go, gaze · To what, where: wood, broad road
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, eyes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 10 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 road | amod |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 gazed | advmod |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gazed | nsubj |
| 18 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | advcl |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 far | punct |
| 20 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 21 far | advmod |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 gazed | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 short | punct |
| 23 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 24 short | advmod |
| 24 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 far | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the boys | the wood | the broad road | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | the boys not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gaze | past | boys's eyes | far, whither property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past | eyes = eye | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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