Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 31
The three darted after it and ran, and they never looked up.
Who acts: three, generals · What happens: dart, run, not look up
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 (three, generals), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 three | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 darted | nsubj |
| 3 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 darted | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 darted | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 looked | advmod |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 darted | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 looked | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 darted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dart | past | the three | after arrow | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | the three not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not look up | past | generals = general | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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