Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 160
The boy hit on the same one, and after a third choice he took his fated bride.
Who acts: boy · What happens: hit, take · To what, where: fated bride
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hit | nsubj |
| 3 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hit | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 choice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 choice | det |
| 12 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 choice | amod |
| 13 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hit | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bride | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fated | fated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bride | amod |
| 18 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | the boy | on the same one | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | boy | boy's fated bride | after a third choice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bride=Destination |
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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