Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 145

But the blind man did not notice: only Katomá noticed that something had gone wrong, so he told his companion, and both asked their sister what was the cause.

Who acts: blind man, Katomá, something, both · What happens: not notice, notice, go, tell, ask, be · To what, where: companion, sister, cause · 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 (blind man, Katomá, something, both), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 notice	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 notice	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 notice	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 notice	advmod
7	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 noticed	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 noticed	advmod
10	Katomá	Katomá	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 noticed	nsubj
11	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 notice	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 gone	mark
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 gone	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	aux
15	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 noticed	ccomp
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gone	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 told	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 noticed	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 companion	nmod:poss
22	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 asked	cc
25	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	26 asked	nsubj
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 noticed	conj
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sister	nmod:poss
28	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 asked	iobj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 cause	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 cause	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cause	det
32	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 asked	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 notice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not notice	past · do-support	the blind man				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	notice	past	Katomá				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past · perfect	something			wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	Katomá	Katomá's companion			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent companion=Recipient
5	ask speech: ask	past	both		merchant's sister		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient
6	is a	past		the cause		what nsubj	tree rules

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 145

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 145