Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 61
So the King pardoned her for the nonce, and gave her a second chance.
Who acts: King · What happens: pardon, give · To what, where: wife, second chance
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 pardoned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pardoned | nsubj |
| 4 | pardoned | pardon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pardoned | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 nonce | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nonce | det |
| 8 | nonce | nonce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pardoned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pardoned | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 chance | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 chance | amod |
| 15 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pardoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon | past | the King | wife | for the nonce | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for nonce=Attribute | |||
| 2 | give | past | the King not said here | a second chance | wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient chance=Theme |
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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