Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 140
Once there lived a poor peasant; and, however much he might toil and moil, he got nothing out of it.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: live, toil, get · To what, where: poor peasant, nothing, moil
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 lived | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | expl |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 peasant | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 peasant | amod |
| 6 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 toil | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 toil | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 toil | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 toil | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 toil | aux |
| 14 | toil | toil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lived | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 moil | cc |
| 16 | moil | moil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 toil | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 got | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 nothing | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | peasant not said here | a poor peasant | there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme peasant=Location | |||
| 2 | toil | might | peasant | moil conj | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past | peasant | nothing | moil | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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