Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 106
So she guarded the dun cow the whole day, and looked as gay as any lady in the land.
Who acts: Márya · What happens: guard, look · To what, where: dun cow
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 (Márya), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 guarded | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 guarded | nsubj |
| 3 | guarded | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cow | det |
| 5 | dun | dun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cow | compound |
| 6 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guarded | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guarded | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 guarded | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 gay | advmod |
| 14 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 looked | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 lady | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 lady | det |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gay | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lady | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 guarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | past | Márya | the dun cow | day | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | look | past | Márya not said here | gay property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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