Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 62
So there the Princess and her husband lived without grief or moil, and their son grew up a big lad and began to feel in himself a giant’s strength.
Who acts: Princess, son · What happens: live, grow up, begin, feel · To what, where: big lad, strength
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 (Princess, son), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 lived | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 1 So | expl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 husband | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Princess | conj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 grief | case |
| 10 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 moil | cc |
| 12 | moil | moil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grief | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 grew | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 grew | compound:prt |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lad | det |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lad | amod |
| 21 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 began | cc |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 grew | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 feel | mark |
| 25 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 began | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 himself | case |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 feel | obl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 giant | det |
| 29 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 strength | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 giant | case |
| 31 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feel | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the Princess and Princess's husband | there | without grief or moil | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow up | past | grief's son | a big lad | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | grief's son not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | feel | to-infinitive | grief's son not said here | a giant's strength | in son | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent strength=Theme in himself=Location |
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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