Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 28
So the king began to think: he was very fond of his daughters, but still he could not do anything whatsoever without money.
Who acts: king · What happens: begin, think, be, not do · To what, where: anything
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | _ | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 think | mark |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 fond | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fond | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fond | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 fond | advmod |
| 11 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 began | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 daughters | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fond | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 do | cc |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 do | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 do | advmod |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fond | conj |
| 22 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 do | obj |
| 23 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 21 do | advmod |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 money | case |
| 25 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the king | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | king | of king's daughters; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not do | could | king | anything | still | without money; whatsoever property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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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