Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 20
So he went on and went on, and he came into the dreamy wood, and he looked and he saw three men fighting with their fists.
Who acts: youth, three men · What happens: go on, come, look, see, fight · To what, where: dreamy wood, three men
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 (youth, three men), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 14 | dreamy | dreamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wood | amod |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 looked | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 looked | conj |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 men | nummod |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 saw | obj |
| 25 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 men | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 fists | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fists | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fighting | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | youth | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go on | past | youth not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | youth | the dreamy wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | look | past | youth | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | see | past | youth | three men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | fight | gerund | three men not said here | with lips's fists | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fist=Co-Agent |
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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