Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 50
Soon he began to overlook the stock, and in the corner he found an image of the holy St. Nicholas the Wonder-Worker.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: begin, overlook, find, image · To what, where: stock, image, corner, holy Nicholas
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 overlook | mark |
| 5 | overlook | overlook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stock | det |
| 7 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overlook | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 corner | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 corner | det |
| 12 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 image | det |
| 16 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Nicholas | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Nicholas | det |
| 19 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Nicholas | amod |
| 20 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 image | nmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Worker | det |
| 23 | Wonder | Wonder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Worker | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Wonder | punct |
| 25 | Worker | Worker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Nicholas | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Iván | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | overlook | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | the stock | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Iván | a image of the holy Nicholas St. | the corner | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Topic | |||
| 4 | image | the holy Nicholas St. | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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