Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 37

This attitude of mind is rather like that of a careful observer, who has become callous, because he is helpless—an attitude of those who serve and stand and wait.

Who acts: attitude, careful observer, realism · What happens: be, become, serve, stand, wait

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attitude, careful observer, realism), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 attitude	det
2	attitude	attitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 observer	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 mind	case
4	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attitude	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 observer	cop
6	rather	rather	ADV	_	12 observer	advmod
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 observer	mark
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 observer	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 observer	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 observer	det
11	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 observer	amod
12	observer	observer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 become	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 become	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 become	aux
16	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 observer	acl:relcl
17	callous	callous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 become	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 helpless	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 helpless	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 helpless	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 helpless	cop
22	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 callous	conj
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 attitude	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 attitude	det
25	attitude	attitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 observer	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 those	case
27	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 attitude	nmod
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 serve	nsubj
29	serve	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 those	acl:relcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stand	cc
31	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 serve	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wait	cc
33	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 serve	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 observer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	this attitude of mind	of a careful observer and a attitude of those; that nsubj	tree rules
2	become	present · perfect	a careful observer and a attitude of those	callous property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	realism	helpless property	tree rules
4	serve	present		who nsubj	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
5	stand	present			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wait	present			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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 37