Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 117
So the cat said, “Now I can see that his eyes are very red, and his fur is dishevelled, and his tail is raised.
Who acts: cat, eyes · What happens: say, see, be, dishevell, raise · To what, where: fur, tail · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, eyes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 7 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 see | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 red | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 red | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 red | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 red | advmod |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 see | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dishevelled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dishevelled | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fur | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dishevelled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 dishevelled | aux:pass |
| 22 | dishevelled | dishevell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 see | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 raised | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 raised | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 tail | nmod:poss |
| 26 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 raised | aux:pass |
| 28 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | can | the cat = cat | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | friend's eyes | red property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dishevell in a quote | present · passive | friend's fur | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | raise in a quote | present · passive | friend's tail | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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