Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 69
And whilst he was thinking this, lo and behold! in front of him stood a covered table, and on the table was food and drink, enough for all.
Who acts: Cossack · What happens: think, stand, cover, be · To what, where: this, front, covered table, table food
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 (Cossack), 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 | _ | 16 stood | cc |
| 2 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 5 thinking | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thinking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thinking | aux |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 stood | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thinking | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lo | punct |
| 8 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 5 thinking | discourse |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 behold | cc |
| 10 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 8 lo | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 lo | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thinking | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 front | nmod |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 table | det |
| 18 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 table | amod |
| 19 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 food | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 food | cc |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 table | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 table | det |
| 24 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 food | compound |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 food | cop |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 drink | cc |
| 28 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 food | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 enough | punct |
| 30 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 food | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 all | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 enough | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | Cossack | this | front of man | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | a covered table | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | table food and drink | drink conj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | for all | tree rules |
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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