Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 62
The former suitors were fair enough in themselves, but he was fairer still.
Who acts: former suitors, Crow · What happens: be
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 (former suitors, Crow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 suitors | det |
| 2 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 suitors | amod |
| 3 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fair | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fair | cop |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 fair | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 themselves | case |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 fair | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fairer | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 fairer | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fairer | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fairer | cop |
| 13 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 fair | conj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 fairer | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the former suitors | in skies = sky; enough, fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Crow | still | fair property | 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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