Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 20
The old man lay down to sleep after dinner, and the pope was all agog to see how he could steal those wafers.
Who acts: old man, pope · What happens: lay down, sleep, be, see, steal · To what, where: wafers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old man, pope), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sleep | mark |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lay | advcl |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 dinner | case |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sleep | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 agog | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 agog | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pope | det |
| 13 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 agog | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 agog | cop |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 agog | advmod |
| 16 | agog | agog | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lay | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 agog | advcl |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 steal | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 steal | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 steal | aux |
| 22 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 see | ccomp |
| 23 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 wafers | det |
| 24 | wafers | wafer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 steal | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | infinitive | the old man | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | after dinner | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the pope | agog, all property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the pope not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | steal | could | pope | that wafers | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wafer=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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