Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 77
So the soldier stretched himself out, took his nosebag from under his head, opened it, and asked: “What is this?”
Who acts: soldier · What happens: stretch out, take, open, ask, be · To what, where: soldier, nosebag, head, this · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (soldier), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 stretched | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stretched | nsubj |
| 4 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 stretched | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 stretched | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stretched | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nosebag | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nosebag | nosebag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 opened | punct |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 opened | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stretched | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 this | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 this | punct |
| 23 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 this | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 this | cop |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 asked | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stretched | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | the soldier | soldier | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the soldier not said here | soldier's nosebag | soldier's head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent nosebag=Theme from head=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | open | past | the soldier not said here | head | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the soldier not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | this | What nsubj | 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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