Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 59
As soon as the Queen had born him a son, the midwives took him away and told the King his wife had born a pup; and they put the new-born babe into a box and threw it into a big pond in the King’s garden.
Who acts: midwives, sons · What happens: bear, take away, tell, put, throw · To what, where: Queen, King, wife, born babe, box, midwife · 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 (midwives, sons), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 took | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 born | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | aux |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 soon | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 born | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 born | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 midwives | det |
| 13 | midwives | midwife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 took | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 told | iobj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 born | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 born | aux |
| 24 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 told | ccomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pup | det |
| 26 | pup | pup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 born | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 put | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 put | nsubj |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 babe | det |
| 32 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 born | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 new | punct |
| 34 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 babe | amod |
| 35 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 box | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 box | det |
| 38 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 threw | cc |
| 40 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 put | conj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 threw | obj |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 pond | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 pond | det |
| 44 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 pond | amod |
| 45 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 threw | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 garden | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 King | det |
| 48 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 garden | nmod:poss |
| 49 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 48 King | case |
| 50 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 threw | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · perfect · passive | the Queen | a son obl:unmarked; King obj | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take away | past | the midwives | King | away, soon property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the midwives not said here | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bear | past · perfect · passive | King's wife | a pup obj | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary pup=Patient | ||||
| 5 | put | past | sons = son | the born babe | a box | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent babe=Goal | |||
| 6 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | throw | past | sons = son not said here | midwife | into a big pond result; in the King's garden | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into pond=Result |
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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