Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 107
[23] He felt thirsty, and wanted to drink, got off the sleeping bench, and there were newts running about on the floor.
Who acts: man, newts · What happens: feel, want, drink, get off, be, run about · To what, where: 23, sleeping bench, floor
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, newts), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 23 | punct |
| 2 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 felt | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 23 | punct |
| 4 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wanted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wanted | cc |
| 9 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 drink | mark |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wanted | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wanted | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 bench | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bench | det |
| 16 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bench | amod |
| 17 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 were | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 were | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 were | expl |
| 21 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | conj |
| 22 | newts | newt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 were | nsubj |
| 23 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 newts | acl |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 running | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 floor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 floor | det |
| 27 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 running | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | man | 23 | thirsty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | want | past | man not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drink not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get off | participle | man not said here | the sleeping bench | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bench=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | be | past | newts | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | run about | gerund | newts not said here | the floor | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/18/107/