Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 103
And the witch had three daughters, one of whom had one eye, the next two eyes, and the third had three.
Who acts: witch, third · What happens: have · To what, where: three daughters, one eye, three
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, third), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 had | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 daughters | nummod |
| 6 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 daughters | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 whom | case |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 whom | conj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 eye | nummod |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eyes | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 eyes | det |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 eyes | nummod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eye | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 third | det |
| 22 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 had | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the witch | three daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the witch not said here | one eye and the next two eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the third | three | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient |
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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