Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 34

And she started telling of all the wealth there was in the palace, how the snake loved her, how whatever she only thought of was in that instant fulfilled.

Who acts: serpent, telling, snake, instant · What happens: start, tell, be, love, think · To what, where: palace, serpent · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent, telling, snake, instant), 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	_	3 started	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 started	nsubj
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 palace	csubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 wealth	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 wealth	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wealth	det
8	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 telling	obl
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 telling	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 palace	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 started	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 loved	punct
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 loved	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 snake	det
17	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 loved	nsubj
18	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 palace	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 loved	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 whatever	punct
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 whatever	advmod
22	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 palace	appos
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 thought	advmod
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 whatever	acl:relcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 thought	obl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fulfilled	cop
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	31 fulfilled	mark
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 instant	det
30	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fulfilled	nsubj
31	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 palace	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	past	serpent				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	gerund			there	of all wealth	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	telling		the palace	whatever appos	tree rules
4	love	past	the snake	serpent			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	past	serpent				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	that instant	the palace not said here		fulfil property	tree rules

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 34, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 34