Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 33
He went for a long time, and saw many maidens, but he took none to wife, for he liked none well enough.
Who acts: third · What happens: go, see, take, like · To what, where: many maidens, none
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maidens | amod |
| 11 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 16 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wife | mark |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 none | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 liked | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 liked | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 liked | nsubj |
| 22 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 23 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 22 liked | obj |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 liked | advmod |
| 25 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 22 liked | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | third | time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | third not said here | many maidens | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | past | third | none wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme | ||||
| 4 | like | past | third | none | enough, well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot none=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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