Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 124
Sometimes the poor brother had not a crumb of bread and the children (each of whom was smaller than the others) cried and begged for something to eat.
Who acts: poor brother, each · What happens: have, be, cry, beg, eat · To what, where: crumb
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor brother, each), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 crumb | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crumb | det |
| 8 | crumb | crumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bread | case |
| 10 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crumb | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 children | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 children | det |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crumb | conj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 smaller | punct |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 smaller | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 whom | case |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 smaller | obl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 smaller | cop |
| 19 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 children | parataxis |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 others | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 others | det |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 cried | obl |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 others | punct |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 smaller | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 begged | cc |
| 26 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 cried | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 something | case |
| 28 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 begged | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 eat | mark |
| 30 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 something | acl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the poor brother | a crumb of bread and the children | sometimes property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | each | of the children; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | than the others | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | for something | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for something=Topic | |||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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