Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 84
The rope ladder stood all ready, and there there stood the elder brothers, who were looking for him.
Who acts: rope ladder, elder brothers · What happens: stand, look · To what, where: elder brothers
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 (rope ladder, elder brothers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ladder | det |
| 2 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ladder | compound |
| 3 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 ready | advmod |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stood | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 stood | expl |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stood | advmod |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 brothers | det |
| 13 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brothers | amod |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stood | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looking | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 looking | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 looking | aux |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 brothers | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looking | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the rope ladder | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the rope ladder not said here | the elder brothers | there; there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | look | past · progressive | the elder brothers | for maiden | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=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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