Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 112
He took the little boy, went home, and threw him into a snow-drift.
Who acts: MARK · What happens: take, go, throw · To what, where: little boy, MARK, snow drift
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MARK), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boy | amod |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 threw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 threw | cc |
| 11 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 threw | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 drift | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 drift | det |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drift | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 snow | punct |
| 17 | drift | drift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threw | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | MARK | the little boy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go | past | MARK not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | MARK not said here | MARK | into a snow drift result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into drift=Result |
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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