Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 132
So he travelled from village to village and from town to town, and searched out all the fair damsels, but he could not find his chosen one, and returned home in a reflective mood.
Who acts: boy · What happens: travel, search out, not find, choose, return · To what, where: village, fair damsels, one, reflective mood
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 travelled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 village | case |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travelled | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travelled | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 town | cc |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 village | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 town | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 searched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 searched | cc |
| 15 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 travelled | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 searched | compound:prt |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 damsels | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 damsels | det |
| 19 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 damsels | amod |
| 20 | damsels | damsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 searched | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 find | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 find | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 find | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 find | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 find | advmod |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 travelled | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 chosen | nmod:poss |
| 28 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 find | xcomp |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 chosen | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 returned | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 returned | cc |
| 32 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 travelled | conj |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 32 returned | advmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 mood | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 mood | det |
| 36 | reflective | reflective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 mood | amod |
| 37 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 returned | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | boy | village | to village and town to town | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination | |||
| 2 | search out | participle | boy not said here | all fair damsels | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent damsel=Location | ||||
| 3 | not find | could | boy | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | choose | participle | boy not said here | one | boy nmod:poss | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 5 | return | past | boy not said here | a reflective mood | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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