Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 120

In a certain kingdom, in a certain land, there was a gipsy who had a wife and seven children, and he lived so poorly that at last there was nothing in the house to eat or to drink—not even a crust of bread.

Who acts: gipsy · What happens: have, be, eat, drink · To what, where: wife, crust

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gipsy), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 kingdom	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kingdom	det
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kingdom	amod
4	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 land	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 land	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 land	det
8	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 land	amod
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kingdom	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kingdom	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lived	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 gipsy	det
14	gipsy	gipsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	nsubj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gipsy	acl:relcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wife	det
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 children	cc
20	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 children	nummod
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wife	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lived	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lived	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lived	nsubj
25	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 poorly	advmod
27	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	25 lived	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 last	mark
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 last	case
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lived	conj
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 last	cop
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 was	nsubj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 house	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 house	det
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nothing	nmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 eat	mark
38	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 nothing	acl
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 drink	cc
40	to	to	PART	_	41 drink	mark
41	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 eat	conj
42	—	-	PUNCT	_	46 crust	punct
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 crust	advmod
44	even	even	ADV	_	46 crust	advmod
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 crust	det
46	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 drink	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 bread	case
48	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 crust	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	a gipsy	a wife and seven children		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	is	past	GIPSY		live, poorly property	tree rules
3	is	past	GIPSY not said here		last property	tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	GIPSY not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	to-infinitive	GIPSY not said here	a crust of bread		vn eat-39.1-1 «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 3, sentence 120

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 120