Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 161
But still he was always dissatisfied, because he did not know what was going on at home.
Who acts: Tsarévich · What happens: be, not know, go on · To what, where: home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévich), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 dissatisfied | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 dissatisfied | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dissatisfied | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dissatisfied | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 dissatisfied | advmod |
| 6 | dissatisfied | dissatisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dissatisfied | parataxis |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 going | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 know | ccomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 going | compound:prt |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 home | case |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 going | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dissatisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tsarévich | still | always, dissatisfied property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | Tsarévich | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go on | past · progressive | home | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
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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