Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 48
This time the parents were at an utter loss what they should do.
Who acts: parents · What happens: be, do · To what, where: utter loss
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loss | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 parents | det |
| 4 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 loss | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 loss | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 loss | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 loss | det |
| 8 | utter | utter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loss | compound |
| 9 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 do | obj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 loss | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 loss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the parents | a utter loss | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | should | parents = parent | a utter loss | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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