Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 143
There was enough of everything that exists that the soul may desire, but she never smiled, never laughed, and it seemed as though her heart could not rejoice at anything.
Who acts: enough, soul, it, heart · What happens: be, exist, desire, not smile, not laugh, seem · To what, where: anything
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enough, soul, it, heart), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 everything | case |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 enough | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 exists | nsubj |
| 7 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 everything | acl:relcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 desire | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soul | det |
| 10 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 desire | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 desire | aux |
| 12 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 exists | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 smiled | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 smiled | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 smiled | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 smiled | advmod |
| 17 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laughed | punct |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 laughed | advmod |
| 20 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 smiled | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seemed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 seemed | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 seemed | nsubj |
| 24 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 laughed | ccomp |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 seemed | advmod |
| 26 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 31 rejoice | mark |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rejoice | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 rejoice | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 rejoice | advmod |
| 31 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 seemed | xcomp |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 anything | case |
| 33 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 rejoice | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | enough of everything | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | exist | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | desire | may | the soul | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | not smile | past | soul | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not laugh | past | soul not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | not rejoice | could | soul's heart | anything | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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