Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 110
The cow knew what was expected of her, and remained standing at the door and lifted her tail up.
Who acts: cow · What happens: know, expect, remain, stand, lift up · To what, where: door, tail · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cow | det |
| 2 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 expected | aux:pass |
| 6 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 expected | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 remained | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 remained | cc |
| 11 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 remained | xcomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 standing | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lifted | cc |
| 17 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 remained | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 tail | nmod:poss |
| 19 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lifted | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 lifted | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the cow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | expect | past · passive | of Tsarévna; what nsubj:pass | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | remain | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | |||||
| 5 | lift up | past | Tsarévna's tail | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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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