Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 50
Yet there they sat all day long with their hands folded, just like fine ladies.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: sit, fold · To what, where: hands
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 sat | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 sat | expl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sat | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 hands | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sat | obl |
| 11 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hands | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ladies | punct |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 ladies | advmod |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 ladies | case |
| 15 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ladies | amod |
| 16 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 folded | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | stepmother | there | day | with stepmother's hands; long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | fold | participle | stepmother's hands not said here | like fine ladies | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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