Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 69

They were fine children; you could _see_ them growing up, not by years, but months, not by days, but by hours.

Who acts: children, you · What happens: be, see, grow up · To what, where: fine 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 (children, you), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 children	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 children	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	amod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 children	acl:relcl
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 growing	punct
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 growing	nsubj
12	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 see	xcomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 growing	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 years	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 years	advmod
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 years	case
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 growing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 months	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 months	cc
20	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 see	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 days	punct
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 days	advmod
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 days	case
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 see	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hours	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 hours	cc
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 hours	case
28	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 see	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 children	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	children = child	fine children		tree rules
2	see	could	you	fine children not said here	day; hour; month	tree rules
3	grow up	gerund	children = child		year	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 69

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 69