Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 117
And he waited one hour, and another hour, and nothing happened, looked at the little tub—all the little bones were floating about all burned to pieces.
Who acts: master, nothing, little bones · What happens: wait, happen, look, float, burn · To what, where: all
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, nothing, little bones), 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 waited | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hour | nummod |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hour | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hour | cc |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 hour | det |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 happened | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 happened | cc |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 happened | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 tub | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tub | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tub | amod |
| 19 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 floating | punct |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 bones | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bones | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bones | amod |
| 24 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 floating | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 floating | aux |
| 26 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 waited | conj |
| 27 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 29 burned | mark |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 floating | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 pieces | case |
| 31 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 burned | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | master | hour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | nothing not said here | at the little tub | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tub=Theme | ||||
| 4 | float | past · progressive | all little bones | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | burn | participle · passive | all | to pieces | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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