Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 95
Now the peasant also had a cat, which had ceased catching mice, and even playing tricks.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: have, cease, catch, play · To what, where: cat, mice, tricks
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 (peasant), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cat | det |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ceased | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ceased | aux |
| 11 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 cat | acl:relcl |
| 12 | catching | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 ceased | xcomp |
| 13 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 catching | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 playing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 playing | cc |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 playing | advmod |
| 17 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 had | conj |
| 18 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 playing | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the peasant | a cat | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient | |||
| 2 | cease | past · perfect · passive | a cat | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | catch | gerund | mice | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play | gerund | the peasant not said here | tricks | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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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