Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 128
“Then, when I looked at your next son, I saw a youth lying in between them.”
Who acts: old man, youth · What happens: look, see, lie in · To what, where: youth
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 (old man, youth), 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 | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 saw | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 looked | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 son | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 son | amod |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 youth | det |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 youth | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 lying | advmod |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lying | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | past | the old man = man | at your next son | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at son=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | the old man = man | a youth | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | lie in in a quote | gerund | a youth not said here | between snakes = snake | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between they=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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