Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 160
Now Marfa Tsarévna was seeing all this, because she kept looking in the glass, and so learned all that was going on.
Who acts: Marfa, that · What happens: see, keep, look, learn, go on · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marfa, that), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 seeing | advmod |
| 2 | Marfa | Marfa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seeing | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Marfa | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seeing | aux |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 this | det:predet |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 seeing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 kept | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seeing | parataxis |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 kept | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 glass | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 glass | det |
| 15 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 learned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 learned | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 learned | advmod |
| 19 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kept | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 going | det:predet |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 going | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 learned | ccomp |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 going | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · progressive | Marfa | this | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | keep | past | Marfa | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | Marfa not said here | in the glass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in glass=Theme | ||||
| 4 | learn | past | Marfa not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go on | past · progressive | that | vn function-105.2.1 «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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