Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 57
This Tsar had a garden so rich that in no other kingdom was there any better, and in that garden many rare trees grew with fruits and without fruits.
Who acts: Tsar, many rare trees · What happens: have, be, grow · To what, where: garden, other kingdom
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, many rare trees), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Tsar | det |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 rich | advmod |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 there | mark |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 kingdom | case |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 kingdom | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kingdom | amod |
| 12 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 there | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 there | cop |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 rich | conj |
| 15 | any | any | ADV | _ | 16 better | advmod |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 there | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 grew | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 garden | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 garden | det |
| 21 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grew | obl |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 trees | amod |
| 23 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 trees | amod |
| 24 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 grew | nsubj |
| 25 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 fruits | case |
| 27 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 grew | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fruits | cc |
| 29 | without | without | ADP | _ | 30 fruits | case |
| 30 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fruits | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this Tsar | a garden | rich property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | this Tsar not said here | no other kingdom | there property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | grow | past | many rare trees | that garden | with fruits and fruits | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=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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