Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 130
“Wherever have you been sauntering?” asked his squint-eyed wife.
Who acts: eyed wife · What happens: saunter, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyed wife), 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 | _ | 6 sauntering | punct |
| 2 | Wherever | wherever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sauntering | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 sauntering | aux |
| 6 | sauntering | saunter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 sauntering | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sauntering | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | squint | squint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyed | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 squint | punct |
| 13 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wife | amod |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | saunter in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Satan's eyed wife | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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