Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 60
And the rich man became envious and thought: “I will go into the field and will lift the stone up.
Who acts: rich man · What happens: become, think, go, lift up · To what, where: field, stone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich man), 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 | _ | 5 became | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 became | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thought | cc |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 field | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 field | det |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lift | cc |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 lift | aux |
| 19 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stone | det |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lift | obj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 lift | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the rich man | envious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the rich man not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | the rich man = man | the field | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | lift up in a quote | future | the rich man = man not said here | the stone | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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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