Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 144
I was looking for a little sheep in the wood, and I saw a knoll, on the knoll flowers, and a bulrush over the knoll.
Who acts: I · What happens: look, see · To what, where: knoll
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looking | aux |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 sheep | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sheep | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sheep | amod |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looking | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sheep | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looking | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 knoll | det |
| 16 | knoll | knoll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 flowers | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 flowers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flowers | det |
| 20 | knoll | knoll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flowers | compound |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knoll | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bulrush | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bulrush | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bulrush | det |
| 25 | bulrush | bulrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obl |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 knoll | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 knoll | det |
| 28 | knoll | knoll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bulrush | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | I | for a little sheep in the wood | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for sheep=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I | a knoll and the knoll flowers | a bulrush over the knoll obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knoll=Stimulus |
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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