Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 73
The gardener consented, and they erected a big, splendid house, and led a merry life in it.
Who acts: gardener, sons · What happens: consent, erect, lead · To what, where: big splendid house, merry life
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, sons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gardener | det |
| 2 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 erected | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 erected | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 erected | nsubj |
| 7 | erected | erect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 house | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 big | punct |
| 11 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 house | amod |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 erected | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 led | cc |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 life | det |
| 17 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 life | amod |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 led | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the gardener | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | erect | past | sons = son | a big splendid house | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | the gardener not said here | a merry life | in gardener | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme in it=Destination |
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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