Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 51
The Woodsprite-forester sat in his iron tower inside the royal garden, and looked out through the window.
Who acts: Woodsprite forester · What happens: sit, look out · To what, where: iron tower, window
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 (Woodsprite forester), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 forester | det |
| 2 | Woodsprite | Woodsprite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 forester | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Woodsprite | punct |
| 4 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tower | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tower | nmod:poss |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tower | compound |
| 9 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 garden | amod |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 looked | compound:prt |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 window | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 window | det |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Woodsprite forester | forester's iron tower | inside the royal garden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tower=Location | |||
| 2 | look out | past | the Woodsprite forester not said here | the window | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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