Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 6
The poor man lay on the oven and saw how merry the other two were making; and fell down and killed the child in the cradle.
Who acts: poor man, other two · What happens: lie, see, make, fall down, kill · To what, where: oven, child, cradle
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 (poor man, other two), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 oven | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oven | det |
| 7 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 merry | advmod |
| 11 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 saw | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 two | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 two | amod |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 making | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 making | aux |
| 16 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 merry | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 fell | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fell | cc |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | parataxis |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 fell | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 killed | cc |
| 22 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fell | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 child | det |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 killed | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 cradle | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cradle | det |
| 27 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 killed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the poor man | the oven | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on oven=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the poor man not said here | merry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | make | past · progressive | the other two | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | fall down | past | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | kill | past | the child | the cradle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
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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