Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 53
Without her the maiden could never have done her task.
Who acts: VASILÍSA · What happens: not do, task · To what, where: maiden
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 (VASILÍSA), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 2 her | case |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 done | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 done | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 done | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 done | aux |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 task | nmod:poss |
| 10 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 done | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | could · perfect · passive | the maiden | without VASILÍSA = vasilísa; VASILÍSA's task obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | task | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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