Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 90
So all the cooks became envious and sought some opportunity of getting rid of the Tsarévich.
Who acts: cooks, opportunity · What happens: become, seek, get · To what, where: opportunity
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 (cooks, opportunity), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 became | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 cooks | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cooks | det |
| 4 | cooks | cook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 became | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sought | cc |
| 8 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | conj |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 opportunity | det |
| 10 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sought | obj |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 getting | mark |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 opportunity | acl |
| 13 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 getting | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Tsarévich | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Tsarévich | det |
| 16 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | all cooks | envious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | all cooks not said here | some opportunity | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | some opportunity not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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