Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 146
Now, in this wood, in which her mother and father lived, there was a bold hunter.
Who acts: mother, bold hunter · What happens: live, be · To what, where: wood
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 (mother, bold hunter), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 wood | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 wood | det |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | obl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 father | cc |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mother | conj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wood | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wood | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hunter | det |
| 18 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hunter | amod |
| 19 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Vanyúshka's mother and father | this wood | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a bold hunter | this wood; there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
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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