Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 78

So she got him so fine a meal that no better meal on earth could be wished, and she was so fair that no pen could write and no tale could tell.

Who acts: girl, pen, tale · What happens: get, wish, be, write, tell · To what, where: fine meal, maiden, better meal · 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 (girl, pen, tale), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 fine	advmod
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meal	amod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meal	det
8	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 wished	obj
10	no	no	ADV	_	12 meal	advmod
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 meal	amod
12	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wished	nsubj:pass
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 earth	case
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 meal	nmod
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 wished	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 wished	aux:pass
17	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 meal	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fair	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fair	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fair	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fair	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 fair	advmod
23	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 write	mark
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 pen	det
26	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 write	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 write	aux
28	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 fair	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tell	cc
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 tale	det
31	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tell	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 tell	aux
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 write	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	past	girl	a fine meal	maiden		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary meal=Theme
2	wish	could · passive		better meal on earth		a fine meal obj	tree rules
3	is	past	girl			fair property	tree rules
4	write	could	no pen				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	could	no tale				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 78

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 78