Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 18
So the doughty youth escaped and once more set forth on his road.
Who acts: doughty youth · What happens: escape
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 (doughty youth), 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 | _ | 5 escaped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 3 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 youth | amod |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 escaped | nsubj |
| 5 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 set | advmod |
| 9 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 escaped | conj |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 set | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 road | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 road | nmod:poss |
| 13 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | the doughty youth | set on youth's road conj | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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