Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 38
Then the _boyárs_ valued the silver case at a high price, and the golden one at a higher price still, and did not deign to look at the wooden one.
Who acts: boyárs · What happens: value, not deign, look · To what, where: silver case, high price
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boyárs), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 valued | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boyárs | det |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 boyárs | punct |
| 4 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 valued | nsubj |
| 5 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 boyárs | appos |
| 6 | valued | value | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 case | det |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 case | compound |
| 9 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 valued | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 price | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 price | det |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 price | amod |
| 13 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 valued | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 one | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 valued | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 price | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 price | det |
| 21 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 price | amod |
| 22 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 one | nmod |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 price | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 deign | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 deign | cc |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 deign | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 deign | advmod |
| 28 | deign | deign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 valued | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 look | mark |
| 30 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 deign | xcomp |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 one | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 one | det |
| 33 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 one | amod |
| 34 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 look | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 valued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | value | past | the boyárs | the silver case | a high price | then | the golden one at a higher price conj | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent case=Theme at price=Value | |
| 2 | not deign | past · do-support | the boyárs not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | the boyárs not said here | at the wooden one | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme |
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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