Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 65
This time the Queen bore a very beautiful daughter, and the sisters took it and told the King she had born an unheard-of monster.
Who acts: Queen, sisters · What happens: bear, take, tell · To what, where: beautiful daughter, chance, King, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bore | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bore | nsubj |
| 5 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 daughter | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 beautiful | advmod |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 daughter | amod |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bore | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sisters | det |
| 13 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bore | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 told | iobj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 born | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 born | aux |
| 22 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 told | ccomp |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 unheard | det |
| 24 | unheard | unheard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 born | xcomp |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 unheard | punct |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 monster | case |
| 27 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 unheard | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | the Queen | a beautiful daughter | time | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | past | the sisters | chance | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the sisters 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 | Queen | unheard property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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