Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 163
All at once the boy and the maiden found themselves on the bank of the lake, and they walked backwards until they reached the high road.
Who acts: All, meat · What happens: find, walk, reach · To what, where: meat, bank, high road
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 (All, meat), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 found | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 boy | case |
| 3 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 5 boy | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 All | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 maiden | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maiden | det |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boy | conj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 bank | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bank | det |
| 13 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lake | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lake | det |
| 16 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bank | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 walked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 walked | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 walked | nsubj |
| 20 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | conj |
| 21 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 20 walked | advmod |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 reached | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 reached | nsubj |
| 24 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 walked | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 road | det |
| 26 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 road | amod |
| 27 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reached | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | All at the boy and the maiden | meat | the bank of the lake | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | |||
| 2 | walk | past | meat | backwards property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | meat | the high road | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
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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