Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 112
But in that time the two little children of the house, who were at school, ran in, looked into the oven, and wanted to nibble.
Who acts: house · What happens: be, run, look, want, nibble · To what, where: school
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house), 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 | _ | 18 ran | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 children | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 children | nummod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 children | amod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 time | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 children | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 school | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 school | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 school | cop |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 school | case |
| 16 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 ran | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ran | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 oven | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 oven | det |
| 24 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looked | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wanted | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wanted | cc |
| 27 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ran | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 nibble | mark |
| 29 | nibble | nibble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wanted | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the house and school | school | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | past | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | into the oven | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into oven=Theme | |||||
| 4 | want | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | nibble not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn chew-39.2 «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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