Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 128
He went a walk in the garden, and you cannot imagine how many trees he saw and flowers, every flower fairer than the other flowers.
Who acts: merchant, you · What happens: go, not imagine, see · To what, where: walk, garden, many trees
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 walk | det |
| 4 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 imagine | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 imagine | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 imagine | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 imagine | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 imagine | advmod |
| 13 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | conj |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 many | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 trees | amod |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 imagine | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 trees | acl:relcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flowers | cc |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 trees | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fairer | punct |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 flower | det |
| 23 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fairer | nsubj |
| 24 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 trees | conj |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 flowers | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 flowers | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 flowers | amod |
| 28 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fairer | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | merchant | a walk | the garden | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location walk=Theme | |||
| 2 | not imagine | can | you | many trees and flowers | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | merchant | many trees and flowers not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
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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