Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 180
They were overjoyed, asked him all about everything, and lived a jolly life.
What happens: overjoy, ask, live · To what, where: noise, Iváshechko, jolly life
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 3 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 overjoyed | parataxis |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | iobj |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 everything | advmod |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 everything | case |
| 9 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 asked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lived | cc |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 life | det |
| 14 | jolly | jolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 life | amod |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | noise | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Iváshechko | about everything | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about everything=Topic | ||||
| 3 | live | past | a jolly life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=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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