Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 64
There there is a maiden who is much fairer than I.” Thereupon she gave him a silver ring.
Who acts: maiden, bride · What happens: be, give · To what, where: silver ring, maiden
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 (maiden, bride), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 fairer | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fairer | cop |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 fairer | advmod |
| 9 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 I. | case |
| 11 | I. | i. | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fairer | obl |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fairer | punct |
| 13 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 15 gave | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 is | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ring | det |
| 18 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ring | amod |
| 19 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a maiden | there; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a maiden | than I.; fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | past | bride | a silver ring | maiden | thereupon property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ring=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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