Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 5
So she gave him a brush and comb and two apples to take with him.
Who acts: Sister · What happens: give, take · To what, where: brush, wind
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 (Sister), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 brush | det |
| 6 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 comb | cc |
| 8 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brush | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 apples | cc |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 apples | nummod |
| 11 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brush | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 take | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Sister | a brush and comb and two apples | wind | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient brush=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Sister not said here | with wind | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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