Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 15
In the evening she roused Two-eyes; and if the stepmother was angry before, she was much angrier this time.
Who acts: Márya, stepmother · What happens: rouse, be · To what, where: Two eyes
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 (Márya, stepmother), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roused | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 roused | nsubj |
| 5 | roused | rouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 eyes | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Two | punct |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 roused | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 angry | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 angry | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 angry | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stepmother | det |
| 13 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 angry | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 angry | cop |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 roused | parataxis |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 angry | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 angrier | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 angrier | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 angrier | cop |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 angrier | advmod |
| 21 | angrier | angry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 roused | conj |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 angrier | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 roused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | past | Márya | Two eyes | evening | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the stepmother | angry, before property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Márya | time | angry property | 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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