Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 85
Three days went by: the Cossack slept in the morning, and then looked out of the window, and his good horse stood saddled at the steps.
Who acts: Three days, Cossack, good horse · What happens: go, sleep, look out, stand, saddle · To what, where: window
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 (Three days, Cossack, good 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 slept | mark |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 slept | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Cossack | det |
| 7 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slept | nsubj |
| 8 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 morning | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 morning | det |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slept | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 looked | advmod |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 window | det |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stood | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stood | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 horse | nmod:poss |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 horse | amod |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stood | nsubj |
| 25 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 26 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 stood | xcomp |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 steps | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 steps | det |
| 29 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 saddled | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Three days | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sleep | past | the Cossack | morning | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look out | past | Three days not said here | the window | then | tree rules | |||
| 4 | stand | past | Cossack's good horse | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | saddle | participle | Cossack's good horse not said here | at the steps | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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