Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 137
Then the son looked and saw that the dress of the old man was very shabby, but the cross on him burnt like fire.
Who acts: son, dress · What happens: look, see, be, burnt · To what, where: cross · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, dress), 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 | 4 looked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 shabby | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dress | det |
| 9 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shabby | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dress | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shabby | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 shabby | advmod |
| 16 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 burnt | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 burnt | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cross | det |
| 20 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cross | nmod |
| 23 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 looked | conj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 fire | case |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burnt | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the son | then | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the son not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the dress of the old man | shabby property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | burnt | participle · passive | the cross on man | like fire | tree rules |
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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