Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 122
She wanted to know why the horses he kept were always so much shapelier and statelier than those which the other herds looked after.
Who acts: daughter, Tsarévna, horses · What happens: want, know, keep, be, look · To what, where: horses
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 (daughter, Tsarévna, horses), 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 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 know | mark |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 shapelier | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horses | det |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shapelier | nsubj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 horses | acl:relcl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shapelier | cop |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 were | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 shapelier | advmod |
| 14 | shapelier | shapely | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 know | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 statelier | cc |
| 16 | statelier | stately | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 shapelier | conj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 those | case |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 shapelier | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 looked | nsubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 herds | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 herds | amod |
| 22 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 looked | nsubj |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 those | acl:relcl |
| 24 | after | after | ADV | _ | 23 looked | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | daughter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | keep | past | Tsarévna | the horses not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the horses | than those; shapely property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the horses not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | look | past | which nsubj; the other herds nsubj; after property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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