Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 122
So the boy made ready to go to the distillery; but a sudden sickness befell him, and he had to go back home.
Who acts: boy, sudden sickness, sickness · What happens: make, go, befall, have, go back · To what, where: distillery, boy
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 (boy, sudden sickness, sickness), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ready | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 distillery | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 distillery | det |
| 10 | distillery | distillery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 befell | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 befell | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sickness | det |
| 14 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sickness | amod |
| 15 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 befell | nsubj |
| 16 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 befell | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 had | xcomp |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the boy | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the boy not said here | the distillery | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to distillery=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | befall | past | a sudden sickness | boy | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | sickness | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go back | to-infinitive | sickness not said here | home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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