Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 70
Once when the master was not at home, and only the workman was left in the smithy, he saw an old rich lady passing by.
Who acts: master, old rich lady · What happens: not be, leave, see, pass by · To what, where: home, workman, smithy, old rich lady
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, old rich lady), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 home | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 home | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 master | det |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 home | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 home | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 home | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 workman | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 workman | det |
| 13 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux:pass |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 home | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 smithy | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 smithy | det |
| 18 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | conj |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lady | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lady | amod |
| 24 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lady | amod |
| 25 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 26 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 lady | acl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 passing | fixed |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 home | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the master | home | once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | the workman | the smithy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in smithy=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | master | a old rich lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | pass by | gerund | a old rich lady not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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