Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 139
It occurred to him suddenly he might peer out of the window, and he saw opposite a big palace, but not one pane of glass was whole.
Who acts: feasting, Lord, one pane · What happens: occur, peer, see, be · To what, where: Lord, big palace
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feasting, Lord, one pane), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 occurred | nsubj |
| 2 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 occurred | obl |
| 5 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 8 peer | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 peer | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 peer | aux |
| 8 | peer | peer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 occurred | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 window | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 window | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 window | det |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 peer | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 occurred | parataxis |
| 17 | opposite | opposite | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 palace | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 palace | amod |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 whole | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 whole | cc |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 one | advmod |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pane | nummod |
| 25 | pane | pane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 whole | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 glass | case |
| 27 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pane | nmod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 whole | cop |
| 29 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 saw | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | feasting | Lord | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | peer | might | Lord | out the window; suddenly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out window=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Lord | opposite big palace | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | one pane of glass | whole property | tree rules |
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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