Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 34
Once upon a time there was a merchant who had been married for twelve years and had only one daughter, Vasilísa the Fair.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: be, marry, have · To what, where: merchant, one daughter
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 (merchant), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 merchant | det |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 married | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 married | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 married | aux:pass |
| 12 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 married | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 married | conj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 one | advmod |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 daughter | nummod |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Vasilísa | punct |
| 22 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 daughter | appos |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Fair | det |
| 24 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Vasilísa | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a merchant | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | marry | past · perfect · passive | a merchant | year | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | one daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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