Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 61
And he then wanted to put them altogether, breathed on them—and nothing happened!
Who acts: pope, nothing · What happens: want, put, breathe, happen · To what, where: yelpings
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 (pope, nothing), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wanted | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wanted | advmod |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 put | mark |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 breathed | punct |
| 10 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wanted | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 breathed | obl |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 happened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 happened | cc |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanted | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | pope | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | pope not said here | yelpings = yelping | altogether property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | |||
| 3 | breathe | participle | pope not said here | on yelpings = yelping | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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