Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 81
But he was impatient: as soon as Márya Moryévna’s back was turned, he at once opened the lumber-room, opened the door and looked in, and there Koshchéy the Deathless was hanging.
Who acts: Iván, Koshchéy · What happens: be, turn, open, look in, hang · To what, where: back, lumber room, door
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, Koshchéy), 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 | _ | 4 impatient | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 impatient | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 impatient | cop |
| 4 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 soon | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 soon | advmod |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 impatient | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 turned | mark |
| 9 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Moryévna | Moryévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Márya | flat |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Márya | case |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 turned | aux:pass |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 soon | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 impatient | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 opened | nsubj |
| 17 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 19 opened | mark |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 opened | advmod |
| 19 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 impatient | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 room | det |
| 21 | lumber | lumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 room | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 lumber | punct |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 opened | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 opened | punct |
| 25 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 opened | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 door | det |
| 27 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 opened | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 looked | cc |
| 29 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 opened | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADV | _ | 29 looked | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 hanging | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 hanging | cc |
| 33 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 34 Koshchéy | expl |
| 34 | Koshchéy | Koshchéy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 hanging | nsubj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Deathless | det |
| 36 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Koshchéy | appos |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 hanging | aux |
| 38 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 opened | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 impatient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Iván | impatient, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | Márya's back | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | open | past | Iván | the lumber room | once property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location room=Theme | |||
| 4 | open | past | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look in | past | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | hang | past · progressive | Koshchéy there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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