Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 71
He went into the stable, and the horse was standing in the stall and was eagerly devouring oats.
Who acts: Cossack, horse · What happens: go, stand, be, devour · To what, where: stable, stall, oats
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, horse), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 stable | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stable | det |
| 5 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 standing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 standing | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 standing | aux |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 stall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stall | det |
| 14 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 eagerly | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 eagerly | cop |
| 17 | eagerly | eagerly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | conj |
| 18 | devouring | devour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 eagerly | advcl |
| 19 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 devouring | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Cossack | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | the horse | the stall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stall=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Cossack not said here | eagerly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | devour | gerund | Cossack not said here | oats | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oat=Patient |
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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