Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 116
And on the third day the third daughter gave him a pipe, which he need only put to his lips, and music, and singers, and musicians would appear before him.
Who acts: third daughter, musicians · What happens: give, put, appear · To what, where: pipe, Iván
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third daughter, musicians), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 daughter | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 daughter | amod |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pipe | det |
| 12 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 put | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | nsubj |
| 16 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | aux |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 put | advmod |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 pipe | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 lips | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lips | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 music | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 music | cc |
| 24 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lips | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 singers | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 singers | cc |
| 27 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lips | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 appear | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 appear | cc |
| 30 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 appear | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 appear | aux |
| 32 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gave | advcl |
| 33 | before | before | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 appear | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the third daughter | a pipe | Iván | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pipe=Theme | ||
| 2 | put | present · passive | a pipe | to Iván's lips and music and singers; Iván nsubj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 3 | appear | would | musicians | before Iván | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
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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