Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 104
The stepmother could not abide Márya Tsarévna, and sent the girl with a dun cow on to the heath, and gave her a dry crust as her only food.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: not abide, send, give · To what, where: Márya, girl, dry crust
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 (stepmother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stepmother | det |
| 2 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 abide | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 abide | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 abide | advmod |
| 5 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 abide | obj |
| 7 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Márya | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sent | cc |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 abide | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 cow | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cow | det |
| 15 | dun | dun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cow | compound |
| 16 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 heath | case |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 heath | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heath | det |
| 20 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cow | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | iobj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 crust | det |
| 26 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 crust | amod |
| 27 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | obl |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 food | advmod |
| 31 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 abide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not abide | could | the stepmother | Márya | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the girl | with a dun cow on the heath | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | a dry crust | girl | as stepmother; food obj | tree rules |
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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