Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 122
This was towards the evening, and whilst the soldier was the miller’s guest it had become dark.
Who acts: This, soldier · What happens: be, become · To what, where: guest
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, soldier), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 evening | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 evening | cop |
| 3 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 guest | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 guest | cc |
| 8 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 15 guest | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soldier | det |
| 10 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 guest | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 guest | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 miller | det |
| 13 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 guest | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 miller | case |
| 15 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 evening | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 become | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 become | aux |
| 18 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 guest | acl:relcl |
| 19 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 become | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | towards the evening and the miller's guest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the soldier | the miller's guest | the miller nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | become | past · perfect | soldier | the miller's guest not said here | dark property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient guest=Result |
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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