Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 15

They ate them, and they once more became young, and gave him a little handkerchief, which he need only shake, and a big lake would appear.

Who acts: women, Iván, big lake · What happens: eat, become, give, shake, appear · To what, where: apples, little handkerchief, Iván

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, Iván, big lake), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 became	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 became	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 became	nsubj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 became	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 became	advmod
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 became	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 handkerchief	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 handkerchief	amod
17	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shake	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 shake	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 shake	nsubj
21	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 shake	aux
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 shake	advmod
23	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 handkerchief	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 appear	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 appear	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lake	det
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lake	amod
28	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 appear	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 appear	aux
30	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ate	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	women = woman	apples = apple			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	become	past	women = woman			once, young property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	give	past	women = woman not said here	a little handkerchief	Iván		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient handkerchief=Theme
4	shake	present	Iván	a little handkerchief			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent which=Patient
5	appear	would	a big lake				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 15