Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 53

There was also a merchant, who had three daughters, and one day they were talking to their father, and one said: “If only the King’s bread-bearer would marry me!”

Who acts: merchant, daughters, one, bread bearer · What happens: be, have, talk, say, marry · To what, where: three daughters, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (merchant, daughters, one, bread bearer), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	also	also	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 merchant	acl:relcl
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 daughters	nummod
10	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 talking	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 talking	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	nummod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 talking	obl:unmarked
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talking	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 talking	aux
17	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 father	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 talking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
23	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 marry	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 marry	punct
27	If	if	SCONJ	_	36 marry	mark
28	only	only	ADV	_	30 King	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 bearer	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 King	case
32	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bearer	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 bread	punct
34	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 marry	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 marry	aux
36	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 marry	obj
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 marry	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	36 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a merchant		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a merchant	three daughters				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	talk	past · progressive	daughters = daughter			day	to daughters's father	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to father=Co-Agent
4	say speech: express	past	one					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	marry a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	the King's bread bearer	me				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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 32, sentence 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 53