Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 105
He never minded, but waited for the spring, and the warm days came, and the snow melted, and the grain sprouts appeared.
Who acts: man, warm days, snow, grain sprouts · What happens: not mind, wait, come, melt, appear
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, warm days, snow, grain sprouts), 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 | 3 minded | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 minded | advmod |
| 3 | minded | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 waited | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 waited | cc |
| 6 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 minded | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 spring | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spring | det |
| 9 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waited | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 days | det |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waited | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 melted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 melted | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 snow | det |
| 19 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 melted | nsubj |
| 20 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 appeared | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 appeared | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sprouts | det |
| 24 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sprouts | compound |
| 25 | sprouts | sprout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 appeared | nsubj |
| 26 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 minded | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 minded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | past | man | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | wait | past | man not said here | spring | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the warm days | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | melt | past | the snow | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | appear | past | the grain sprouts | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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