Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 137

Seeing the snake in the pot, he guesses what has occurred, so he pretends to be still blind, and watches his wife and his friend.

Who acts: husband · What happens: see, guess, occur, pretend, be, watch · To what, where: snake, pot, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 guesses	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snake	det
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seeing	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pot	det
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seeing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 guesses	nsubj
9	guesses	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 occurred	nsubj:pass
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 occurred	aux
12	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 guesses	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pretends	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 pretends	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pretends	nsubj
16	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 guesses	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	20 blind	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 blind	cop
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 blind	advmod
20	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pretends	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 watches	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 watches	cc
23	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 guesses	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 watches	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 friend	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 friend	nmod:poss
28	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wife	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 guesses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		the snake	the pot			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus
2	guess	present	husband					vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	occur	present · perfect · passive						tree rules
4	pretend	present	husband					tree rules
5	is	to-infinitive	husband not said here			still	blind property	tree rules
6	watch	present	husband not said here	husband's wife and husband's friend				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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