Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 122
I went to sleep and thought I saw two candles blazing in front of the images and two birds fluttering inside the hut.”
Who acts: I, two candles, two birds · What happens: go, sleep, think, see, blaze, flutter · To what, where: two candles, front, hut · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, two candles, two birds), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 sleep | mark |
| 4 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thought | cc |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 candles | nummod |
| 10 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | blazing | blaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 candles | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blazing | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 images | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 images | det |
| 16 | images | image | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 front | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 birds | cc |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 birds | nummod |
| 19 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 images | conj |
| 20 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 birds | acl |
| 21 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 23 hut | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hut | det |
| 23 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fluttering | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | I not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | I | two candles | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer candle=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | blaze | gerund | two candles not said here | front of the images and two birds | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 6 | flutter | gerund | two birds not said here | the hut | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside hut=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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