Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 62
One year went by, and the Queen bore him another son, and the sisters again took it away, and told him she had born a kitten.
Who acts: Queen, sisters · What happens: go by, bear, take away, tell · To what, where: son, King, chance, Queen · 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 (Queen, sisters), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 year | nummod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bore | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bore | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bore | nsubj |
| 9 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bore | obj |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bore | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sisters | det |
| 16 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 took | nsubj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 sisters | advmod |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 took | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 told | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 told | cc |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 told | iobj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 born | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 born | aux |
| 27 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 told | ccomp |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 kitten | det |
| 29 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 born | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | year | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bear | past | the Queen | another son | King | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary son=Patient | |||
| 3 | take away | past | the sisters | chance | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | bear | past · perfect · passive | Queen | a kitten obj | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary kitten=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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