Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 61

And lo and behold, on the water there were twelve ducks and one drake swimming; one feather was of gold and one feather was of silver, and the drake had a diamond tuft on his forehead.

Who acts: twelve ducks, one feather, gold, drake · What happens: be, have · To what, where: water, diamond tuft, forehead

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 (twelve ducks, one feather, gold, drake), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 lo	cc
2	lo	lo	INTJ	_	10 were	discourse
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 behold	cc
4	behold	behold	INTJ	_	2 lo	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lo	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 were	obl
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 were	expl
10	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 had	advcl
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 ducks	nummod
12	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 were	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 swimming	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 swimming	nummod
15	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 swimming	compound
16	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ducks	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 gold	punct
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 feather	nummod
19	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gold	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gold	cop
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 gold	case
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 silver	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 feather	cc
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 feather	nummod
25	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gold	conj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 silver	cop
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 silver	case
28	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 were	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 drake	det
32	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 tuft	det
35	diamond	diamond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tuft	amod
36	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 forehead	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 forehead	nmod:poss
39	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tuft	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	twelve ducks and one drake swimming		the water; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Location
2	is	past	one feather			of gold and one feather	tree rules
3	is	past	gold and one feather			of silver	tree rules
4	have	past	the drake	a diamond tuft	drake's forehead		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuft=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 61