Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 103
At midnight the lady had a dream, and heard some one knock at the window and ask: “Old and righteous man, are you sleeping here to-night?”
Who acts: lady, you · What happens: have, hear, ask, sleep · To what, where: dream, one knock, window · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 midnight | case |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dream | det |
| 7 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heard | cc |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 knock | det |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 knock | nummod |
| 13 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 window | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 window | det |
| 16 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ask | cc |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 heard | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Old | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Old | punct |
| 21 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ask | ccomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 man | cc |
| 23 | righteous | righteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Old | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sleeping | punct |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 sleeping | aux |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 sleeping | nsubj |
| 28 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 ask | ccomp |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 sleeping | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 night | case |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 to | punct |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sleeping | obl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 sleeping | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the lady | a dream | midnight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | |||
| 2 | hear | past | the lady not said here | some one knock | the window | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer knock=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the lady not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sleep in a quote | present · progressive | you | here | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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