Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 104

And the two elder brothers were indeed fine lads, and they grew up fine stout fellows; but the youngest, Vanyúshka,[32] was under-sized, like a starved duckling, and flat-chested.

Who acts: two elder brothers, fine lads · What happens: be, grow up, size, starve · To what, where: fine lads, fine stout fellows, youngest

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two elder brothers, fine lads), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 lads	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 brothers	nummod
4	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brothers	amod
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lads	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lads	cop
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 lads	advmod
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lads	amod
9	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grew	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grew	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grew	nsubj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 grew	compound:prt
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fellows	amod
16	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fellows	amod
17	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grew	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 sized	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 sized	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 youngest	det
21	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 sized	nsubj:pass
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Vanyúshka	punct
23	Vanyúshka	Vanyúshka	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 youngest	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 32	punct
25	[	[	PUNCT	_	26 32	punct
26	32	32	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 Vanyúshka	appos
27	]	]	PUNCT	_	26 32	punct
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sized	aux:pass
29	under	under	ADP	_	31 sized	mark
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 under	punct
31	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 grew	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 duckling	punct
33	like	like	ADP	_	36 duckling	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 duckling	det
35	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 duckling	amod
36	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sized	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 chested	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 chested	cc
39	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 chested	amod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 flat	punct
41	chested	chested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grew	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the two elder brothers	fine lads	indeed property	tree rules
2	grow up	past	fine lads	fine stout fellows	lads = lad nsubj	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fellow=Theme
3	size	past · passive		the youngest	a starved duckling conj	tree rules
4	starve	participle				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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 104

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 104