Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 130

Time went by and the boy grew up: he became a man and looked at all the maidens.

Who acts: boy · What happens: go by, grow up, become, look · To what, where: man

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), 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	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl:unmarked
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	2 went	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grew	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	nsubj
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 grew	compound:prt
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 became	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 became	nsubj
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 became	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looked	cc
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 became	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 maidens	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 maidens	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 maidens	det
19	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 looked	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go by	past			time		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow up	past	the boy				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	past	boy	a man			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	look	past	boy not said here			at all maidens	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at maiden=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 130

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 130