Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 136
And he thought and thought, and he left the bench and stood in front of the icon, and sighed a heavy sigh.
Who acts: folk · What happens: think, leave, stand, sigh · To what, where: bench, front, heavy sigh
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 thought | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thought | cc |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 left | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bench | det |
| 11 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 front | case |
| 15 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 icon | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 icon | det |
| 18 | icon | icon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 front | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sighed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sighed | cc |
| 21 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sigh | det |
| 23 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sigh | amod |
| 24 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sighed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | folk | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | folk not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | folk | the bench | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bench=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | folk not said here | front of the icon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 5 | sigh | past | folk not said here | a heavy sigh | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Topic |
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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