Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 130
As soon as he had turned round, and had gone four steps, he found himself under the water, in a white stone palace.
Who acts: boy · What happens: turn round, go, find · To what, where: four steps, boy, water
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 (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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 turned | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 turned | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | aux |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | round | round | ADV | _ | 6 turned | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gone | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gone | cc |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | aux |
| 11 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 turned | conj |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 steps | nummod |
| 13 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gone | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 found | obj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 palace | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 palace | amod |
| 25 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 palace | compound |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past · perfect | boy | round, soon property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | boy not said here | four steps | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | boy | boy | the water | in a white stone palace | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
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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