Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 29
Márya Tsarévna took the bowl and gathered the berries, and the little birds helped her in the task.
Who acts: Márya, little birds · What happens: take, gather, help · To what, where: bowl, berries, Márya, task
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Márya, little birds), 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 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Márya | flat |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bowl | det |
| 5 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gathered | cc |
| 7 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 berries | det |
| 9 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gathered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 helped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 helped | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 birds | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 birds | amod |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 helped | nsubj |
| 15 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 helped | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 task | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 task | det |
| 19 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 helped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Márya | the bowl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gather | past | Márya not said here | the berries | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | past | the little birds | Márya | the task | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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