Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 66
There he saw a maiden who was fairer yet than the former, and he prayed and bowed down low.
Who acts: boy, maiden · What happens: see, be, pray, bow down · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy, maiden), 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 saw | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fairer | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 fairer | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fairer | cop |
| 8 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 former | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 former | det |
| 12 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 yet | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 prayed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prayed | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 prayed | nsubj |
| 16 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bowed | cc |
| 18 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 prayed | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 bowed | advmod |
| 20 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bowed | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | boy | there | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is | past | a maiden | who nsubj; fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pray | past | boy | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | bow down | past | boy not said here | down, low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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