Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 109
Then he looked up at the master’s eldest son, and there was a snake lying in between him and his wife.
Who acts: man, snake · What happens: look up, be, lie in
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, snake), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 son | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 master | det |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 master | case |
| 9 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 son | amod |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 was | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 snake | det |
| 16 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 snake | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 lying | advmod |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lying | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wife | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 him | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | man | then | at the master's eldest son | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at son=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | a snake | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie in | gerund | a snake not said here | between man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between he=Location |
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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