Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 110
And he looked at the second son, and on the second son’s wife there was a cat which was yawning at the man.
Who acts: man, cat · What happens: look, be, yawn · To what, where: cat
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, cat), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 looked | cc |
| 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 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 son | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 son | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 son | amod |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 was | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 wife | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 son | amod |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 son | case |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | obl |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cat | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cat | det |
| 19 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | conj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 yawning | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 yawning | aux |
| 22 | yawning | yawn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 cat | acl:relcl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 yawning | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | man | at the second son | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at son=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | man not said here | a cat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | yawn | past · progressive | a cat | at the man | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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