Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 60
Further, the doll taught her herb-lore; so, thanks to her doll, she had a merry life; and the years went by.
Who acts: doll, thanks, years · What happens: teach, have, go by · To what, where: herb lore, merry life
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 (doll, thanks, years), 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 | Further | further | ADV | _ | 5 taught | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Further | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doll | det |
| 4 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taught | nsubj |
| 5 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lore | nmod:poss |
| 7 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lore | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 herb | punct |
| 9 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taught | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 had | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thanks | punct |
| 13 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 doll | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 doll | nmod:poss |
| 16 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thanks | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thanks | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taught | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 life | det |
| 21 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 life | amod |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 years | det |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taught | conj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 went | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | the doll | VASILÍSA's herb lore | further property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lore=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | past | thanks to VASILÍSA's doll | a merry life | VASILÍSA = vasilísa nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | |||
| 3 | go by | past | the years | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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