Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 32
And he married the poor nobleman to the youngest daughter, and they lived happily ever after.
Who acts: bade, daughters · What happens: marry, live · To what, where: poor nobleman
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bade, daughters), 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 | _ | 3 married | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 married | nsubj |
| 3 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nobleman | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nobleman | amod |
| 6 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 married | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 daughter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 9 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 daughter | amod |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 married | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lived | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 married | conj |
| 15 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 14 lived | advmod |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 after | advmod |
| 17 | after | after | ADV | _ | 14 lived | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | bade | the poor nobleman | to the youngest daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent nobleman=Patient to daughter=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | live | past | daughters = daughter | ever | after, happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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