Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 105

The old woman went to the next village, went from one end to the other, went through all the courtyards and houses of the peasants, but it was all in vain.

Who acts: old woman, village · What happens: go, be · To what, where: next village, one end, courtyards

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, village), 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	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 village	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 village	amod
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 end	nummod
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 other	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 went	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
19	through	through	ADP	_	22 courtyards	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 courtyards	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 courtyards	det
22	courtyards	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 went	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 houses	cc
24	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 courtyards	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 peasants	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 peasants	det
27	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 houses	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 vain	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 vain	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 vain	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 vain	cop
32	all	all	ADV	_	34 vain	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 vain	case
34	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the old woman	the next village			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location
2	go	past			from one end	to the other	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from end=Initial_Location to other=Destination
3	go	past		all courtyards and houses of the peasants			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through courtyard=Initial_Location
4	is	past	village			all, vain property	tree rules

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 9, sentence 105

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 105