Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 158
Then the poor nobleman pretended to be as sound asleep as a log, and himself kept a keen look out for every noise.
Who acts: poor nobleman, sound, nobleman, keen · What happens: pretend, be, keep, look out · To what, where: keen
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor nobleman, sound, nobleman, keen), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 pretended | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nobleman | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nobleman | amod |
| 4 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pretended | nsubj |
| 5 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 asleep | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asleep | cop |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 asleep | mark |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asleep | nsubj |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pretended | ccomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 log | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 log | det |
| 13 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asleep | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kept | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kept | cc |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 kept | nsubj |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pretended | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 keen | det |
| 19 | keen | keen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | obj |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 kept | xcomp |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 look | compound:prt |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 noise | case |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 noise | det |
| 24 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 look | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | the poor nobleman | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | sound | as a log; asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | nobleman | a keen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look out | infinitive | a keen not said here | for every noise | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for noise=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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