Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 81
And they sat there for a long time, and became very hungry, for they had nothing to eat.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: sit, become, have, eat · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | _ | 3 sat | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 became | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 became | cc |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 hungry | advmod |
| 13 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 became | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 had | case |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 became | conj |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 eat | mark |
| 20 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 nothing | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | eyes = eye | there | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | become | past | eyes = eye not said here | hungry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | eyes = eye | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | eyes = eye not said here | nothing not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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