Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 81
Meanwhile, Vanya looked on, smiling and chuckling, and waiting till the bride should come to him herself.
Who acts: Vanya, waiting · What happens: look on, smile, chuckle, wait, come · To what, where: bride, Vanya
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vanya, waiting), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | Vanya | Vanya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 looked | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 smiling | punct |
| 7 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 looked | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 chuckling | cc |
| 9 | chuckling | chuckle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 smiling | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 12 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 come | csubj |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 bride | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bride | det |
| 15 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waiting | obl |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 looked | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 come | obl |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 come | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past | Vanya | meanwhile property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | Vanya not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | chuckle | gerund | Vanya not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | till the bride | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come | should | waiting | bride | Vanya | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location |
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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