Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 98
She arrived at last at that same oak-tree, saw the old man sitting on it, greeted him, and shaved his head and brows, as she brought scissors and a mirror with her.
Who acts: life, old man · What happens: arrive, see, sit, greet, shave, bring · To what, where: last, old man, Prince, head, scissors
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, old man), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 arrived | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 tree | nsubj |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 8 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 oak | punct |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arrived | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 16 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 man | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sitting | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 greeted | punct |
| 20 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 greeted | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shaved | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shaved | cc |
| 24 | shaved | shave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arrived | parataxis |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shaved | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 brows | cc |
| 28 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 head | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 brought | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 brought | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 brought | nsubj |
| 32 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 shaved | conj |
| 33 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 brought | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 mirror | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 mirror | det |
| 36 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 scissors | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 brought | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | life | last | at same oak tree that | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | the old man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | the old man not said here | on BIRD | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location | ||||
| 4 | greet speech: greet | past | Prince | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 5 | shave | past | Prince's head and brows | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||||
| 6 | bring | past | life | scissors and a mirror | with water | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent scissors=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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