Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 12
Some time went by, not much, not little, and the King gave his two elder daughters away to famous Tsarévichi.
Who acts: time, King · What happens: go, give · To what, where: little, two elder daughters, famous Tsarévichi
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, King), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 much | case |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 much | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 little | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 little | advmod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 daughters | nummod |
| 18 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 daughters | amod |
| 19 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 gave | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Tsarévichi | case |
| 22 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Tsarévichi | amod |
| 23 | Tsarévichi | Tsarévichi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | some time | little | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by much=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the King | Donotknow's two elder daughters | famous Tsarévichi | away property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to tsarévichi=Recipient |
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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