Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 43
In the meantime her unknown guest was sitting in the besom.
Who acts: unknown guest · What happens: sit · To what, where: meantime
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unknown guest), 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 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | obl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 guest | nmod:poss |
| 5 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 guest | amod |
| 6 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sitting | aux |
| 8 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 besom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 besom | det |
| 11 | besom | besom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | witch's unknown guest | the meantime | in the besom | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meantime=Location |
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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