Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 68
But, when her three children had been thrown into the pond in the King’s garden, they were not drowned, for the King’s gardener took them home and brought them up.
Who acts: gardener · What happens: throw, not drown, take, bring up · To what, where: three children, pond, children
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 (gardener), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 thrown | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thrown | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 thrown | mark |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 children | nmod:poss |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 children | nummod |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thrown | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 thrown | aux:pass |
| 9 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 pond | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pond | det |
| 12 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrown | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 garden | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 King | case |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrown | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drowned | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drowned | aux:pass |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 drowned | advmod |
| 22 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 thrown | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 took | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 took | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 gardener | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 King | case |
| 28 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 took | nsubj |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drowned | parataxis |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 took | obj |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 took | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 brought | cc |
| 33 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 took | conj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 brought | obj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 brought | compound:prt |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · perfect · passive | passer's three children | into the pond result; in the King's garden | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into pond=Result | ||||
| 2 | not drown | past · passive | children = child | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the King's gardener | children = child | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | bring up | past | the King's gardener not said here | children = child | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=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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