Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 34
Then the stepmother turned her into a goose, and decked her eldest daughter as though she were the wife of Iván Tsarévich.
Who acts: stepmother, Márya · What happens: turn, deck, be · To what, where: Márya, eldest daughter, wife
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 (stepmother, Márya), 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 | 4 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stepmother | det |
| 3 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 goose | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 goose | det |
| 8 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 decked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 decked | cc |
| 11 | decked | deck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 daughter | amod |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 decked | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 decked | advmod |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 wife | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wife | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wife | det |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 decked | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Iván | case |
| 22 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 wife | nmod |
| 23 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Iván | flat |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the stepmother | Márya | then | into a goose result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Theme into goose=Result | ||
| 2 | deck | past | the stepmother not said here | Márya's eldest daughter | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme daughter=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Márya | the wife | of Iván | tree rules |
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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