Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 98
But the dog saw that it was going to a miserable life without any food, and secretly began bringing it bread and butter and feeding it.
Who acts: dog · What happens: see, go, begin, bring, feed · To what, where: miserable life, DOG · 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 (dog), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 life | det |
| 11 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 life | amod |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 food | case |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 food | det |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 18 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 19 began | advmod |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 20 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 began | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bringing | obj |
| 22 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bringing | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 butter | cc |
| 24 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bread | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 feeding | cc |
| 26 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 bringing | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 feeding | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | DOG | a miserable life | without any food | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | begin | past | the dog not said here | secretly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | bring | gerund | the dog not said here | DOG | bread and butter obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination bread=Theme | |||
| 5 | feed | gerund | the dog not said here | DOG | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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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