Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 22
The old man woke up and felt for his wafers, and could not find them anywhere.
Who acts: old man · What happens: wake up, feel, not find · To what, where: wafers
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), 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 woke | nsubj |
| 4 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 woke | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 felt | cc |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 wafers | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wafers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wafers | wafer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 felt | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 find | advmod |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 woke | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | obj |
| 17 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 find | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | the old man | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | the old man not said here | for man's wafers | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for wafer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not find | could | the old man not said here | wafers = wafer | anywhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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