Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 46
The merchant married her, but he had made a mistake, for she was no good mother to his own daughter.
Who acts: merchant, Vasilísushka, widow · What happens: marry, make, be · To what, where: widow, mistake
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, Vasilísushka, widow), 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 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 married | nsubj |
| 3 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 married | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 married | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mistake | det |
| 11 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mother | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 mother | case |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mother | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 mother | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mother | amod |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 daughter | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 daughter | amod |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mother | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | the merchant | widow | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | Vasilísushka | a mistake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | past | widow | for no good mother; to Vasilísushka's own daughter | 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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