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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 122

He breathed smoke, and stood in front of the old man as though he were rooted to the ground, and asked him, “What do you wish?”

Who acts: earth · What happens: breathe, stand, root, ask, wish · To what, where: smoke, front, earth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth), 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

nsubjobjpunctccconjcaseoblcasedetamodnmodadvmodmarknsubjaux:passadvclcasedetoblpunctccparataxisiobjpunctpunctobjauxnsubjccomppunctpunctrootHePRONbreathedVERBsmokeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJstoodVERBinADPfrontNOUNofADPtheDEToldADJmanNOUNasADVthoughSCONJhePRONwereAUXrootedVERBtoADPtheDETgroundNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaskedVERBhimPRON,PUNCT“PUNCTWhatPRONdoAUXyouPRONwishVERB?PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 breathednsubj
2breathedbreatheVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3smokesmokeNOUNNumber=Sing2 breathedobj
4,,PUNCT_6 stoodpunct
5andandCCONJ_6 stoodcc
6stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 breathedconj
7ininADP_8 frontcase
8frontfrontNOUNNumber=Sing6 stoodobl
9ofofADP_12 mancase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 mandet
11oldoldADJDegree=Pos12 manamod
12manmanNOUNNumber=Sing8 frontnmod
13asasADV_6 stoodadvmod
14thoughthoughSCONJ_17 rootedmark
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 rootednsubj
16werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 rootedaux:pass
17rootedrootVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 stoodadvcl
18totoADP_20 groundcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 grounddet
20groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing17 rootedobl
21,,PUNCT_23 askedpunct
22andandCCONJ_23 askedcc
23askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 breathedparataxis
24himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 askediobj
25,,PUNCT_30 wishpunct
26“"PUNCT_30 wishpunct
27WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int30 wishobj
28dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 wishaux
29youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs30 wishnsubj
30wishwishVERBVerbForm=Inf23 askedccomp
31??PUNCT_30 wishpunct
32”"PUNCT_30 wishpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1breathepastearthsmokevn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoke=Theme
2standpastearth not said herefront of the old manvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
3rootpast · passiveearthto the groundvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4ask speech: askpastearthvn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5wish in a quotepresent · do-supportearthWhat objvn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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