Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 68
Oh, it was a fine sight, and the smith so grew to love him, and was so content with him—I cannot tell you how much!
Who acts: apprentice, fine sight, I · What happens: be, grow, love, not tell · To what, where: fine sight, master, much, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (apprentice, fine sight, I), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 sight | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sight | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sight | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sight | amod |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smith | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 smith | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 smith | det |
| 11 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | conj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 grew | advmod |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 love | mark |
| 15 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 grew | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 love | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 content | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 content | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 content | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 content | advmod |
| 21 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grew | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 content | obl |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 tell | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 tell | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 tell | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 tell | advmod |
| 28 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 grew | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 tell | iobj |
| 30 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 much | advmod |
| 31 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tell | obj |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | apprentice | a fine sight and the smith | the smith conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | past | a fine sight and the smith | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | love | to-infinitive | a fine sight and the smith not said here | master | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a fine sight and the smith not said here | with master; content property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not tell speech: assert | can | I | much | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient much=Topic |
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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