Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 103
Now this king had three daughters: the elder ones were beautiful, but the younger fairer still.
Who acts: king, elder ones · What happens: have, be · To what, where: three daughters
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, elder ones), 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 | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 daughters | nummod |
| 6 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 beautiful | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ones | det |
| 9 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 10 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beautiful | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 beautiful | cop |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fairer | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 fairer | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 younger | det |
| 16 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 fairer | advcl |
| 17 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 beautiful | conj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 fairer | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this king | three daughters | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | the elder ones | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the elder ones not said here | still | tree rules |
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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