Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 120
They—it was really wonderful—were always well fed, well set-up, and shapely.
Who acts: men · What happens: be, feed, set up
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 (men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wonderful | nsubj |
| 2 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 They | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wonderful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wonderful | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 wonderful | advmod |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fed | punct |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fed | aux:pass |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 fed | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 fed | advmod |
| 11 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wonderful | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 set | advmod |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fed | conj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 up | punct |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shapely | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shapely | cc |
| 19 | shapely | shapely | ADV | _ | 14 set | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | men = man | music nsubj; wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feed | past · passive | always, well property | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient» | |||||
| 3 | set up | participle | shapely, well property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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