Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 106
She had only a very little crust of bread and a mere handful of flour, and she also had a cow, but the cow had no milk.
Who acts: WIDOW, cow · What happens: have · To what, where: little crust, cow, milk
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WIDOW, cow), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 crust | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crust | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 little | advmod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crust | amod |
| 7 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bread | case |
| 9 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crust | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 handful | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 handful | det |
| 12 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 handful | amod |
| 13 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crust | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 flour | case |
| 15 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 handful | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 had | advmod |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cow | det |
| 22 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 had | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cow | det |
| 26 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 milk | det |
| 29 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | WIDOW | a little crust of bread and a mere handful of flour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | WIDOW | a cow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the cow | no milk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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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