Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 88
Then some of them wondered when they saw the ducks and drakes, every one of them worth half a kingdom.
Who acts: some, gardens · What happens: wonder, see · To what, where: ducks · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (some, gardens), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 wondered | advmod |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 wondered | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 some | nmod |
| 5 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wondered | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ducks | det |
| 10 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drakes | cc |
| 12 | drakes | drake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ducks | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ducks | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 19 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 21 kingdom | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 kingdom | det |
| 21 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 worth | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | some of gardens | then | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | gardens = garden | the ducks and drakes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duck=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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