Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 165
In larger houses there may be a _lezhán’ka_ or heating stove, used as a sleeping sofa.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, use · To what, where: _ stove, larger houses
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 houses | case |
| 2 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 houses | amod |
| 3 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stove | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 be | expl |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stove | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stove | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 _ | punct |
| 9 | lezhán’ka | lezhán'ka | X | _ | 10 _ | compound |
| 10 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stove | compound |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 heating | cc |
| 12 | heating | heating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 _ | conj |
| 13 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 used | punct |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stove | acl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 sofa | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sofa | det |
| 18 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sofa | compound |
| 19 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 used | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | imperative | you not said here | a _ stove | larger houses | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | participle | a _ stove not said here | as a sleeping sofa | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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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