Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 33
Now, his stepmother did not love her stepson, and looked out for fortune-tellers to learn how to get rid of him.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: not love, look out, learn, get · To what, where: stepson · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (stepmother), 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 | 7 love | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 love | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 love | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 love | advmod |
| 7 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stepson | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stepson | stepson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 love | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 love | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 looked | compound:prt |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 tellers | case |
| 15 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tellers | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 fortune | punct |
| 17 | tellers | teller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 looked | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 learn | mark |
| 19 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 looked | advcl |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 get | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 learn | ccomp |
| 23 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 get | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rid | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not love | past · do-support | son's stepmother | stepmother's stepson | now | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stepson=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | look out | past | for fortune tellers | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for teller=Theme | |||||
| 3 | learn | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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