Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 63
Now the King could not catch any more animals, and became angry, and attacked his wife for giving the key away and setting the Woodsprite free.
Who acts: King · What happens: not catch, become, attack, give away, set · To what, where: more animals, wife, key, Woodsprite
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 (King), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 catch | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 catch | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 catch | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 catch | advmod |
| 6 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 animals | amod |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 catch | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 became | cc |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 catch | parataxis |
| 13 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 attacked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 attacked | cc |
| 16 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 became | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 attacked | obj |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 giving | mark |
| 20 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 attacked | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 key | det |
| 22 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 giving | obj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 giving | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 setting | cc |
| 25 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 giving | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Woodsprite | det |
| 27 | Woodsprite | Woodsprite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 setting | obj |
| 28 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 setting | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not catch | could | the King | more animals | now | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past | angry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | attack | past | King's wife | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||||
| 4 | give away | gerund | the key | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent key=Theme | ||||
| 5 | set | gerund | the Woodsprite | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient woodsprite=Result |
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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