Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 2
But he saw the golden bridle on the wall, and when his glance fell on it he took it from the hook.
Who acts: Iván, glance · What happens: see, fall, take, glance · To what, where: golden bridle, wall, glance, hook
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, glance), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 saw | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bridle | det |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bridle | amod |
| 6 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 fell | advmod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 glance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fell | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 hook | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hook | det |
| 23 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Iván | the golden bridle | the wall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bridle=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fall | past | Iván's glance | wall | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on it=Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Iván | glance | the hook | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from hook=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | glance | Iván | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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