Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 86
“Potter, hold in your horse a little while I look at your stock.”
Who acts: Potter, your · What happens: hold, look, stock · To what, where: little
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 (Potter, your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
| 2 | Potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Potter | punct |
| 4 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hold | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 look | nsubj |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hold | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 stock | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stock | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold in a quote | infinitive | Potter | a little | in your horse | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in horse=Location | |||
| 2 | look in a quote | present | Potter | at your stock | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stock=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stock in a quote | your | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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