Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 159
He drew it up, looked at it very near, looked very carefully, and in the basket there was a little devil sitting.
Who acts: peasant, little devil · What happens: draw up, look, be, sit · To what, where: withy, basket
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 (peasant, little devil), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 drew | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | obl |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 near | advmod |
| 10 | near | near | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 carefully | advmod |
| 14 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 12 looked | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 was | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 basket | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 basket | det |
| 19 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | obl |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 devil | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 devil | amod |
| 24 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 25 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 devil | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw up | past | peasant | withy | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | peasant not said here | at withy; near property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | peasant not said here | carefully property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | be | past | a little devil | the basket; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in basket=Location | ||||
| 5 | sit | gerund | a little devil not said here | 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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