Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 5
One day the old man went into the forest to look for mushrooms, and an old gaffer met him.
Who acts: old man, old gaffer · What happens: go, look, meet · To what, where: forest, God
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 (old man, old gaffer), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 mushrooms | case |
| 13 | mushrooms | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 look | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 met | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 met | cc |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gaffer | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gaffer | amod |
| 18 | gaffer | gaffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 met | nsubj |
| 19 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 met | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old man | the forest | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | for mushrooms | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mushroom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | a old gaffer | God | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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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