Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 164
The Devil wanted to hunt after them; but all at once the lake vanished, and there was no trace of the water.
Who acts: Devil, lake, trace · What happens: want, hunt, vanish, be
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 (Devil, lake, trace), 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 Devil | det |
| 2 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hunt | mark |
| 5 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hunt | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 vanished | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 vanished | cc |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 vanished | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 15 vanished | mark |
| 12 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 15 vanished | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lake | det |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vanished | nsubj |
| 15 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wanted | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 was | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 was | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 vanished | parataxis |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 trace | det |
| 21 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trace | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the Devil | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hunt not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Devil not said here | after meat | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | vanish | past | the lake | all property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | past | no trace of the water | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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