Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 65
So the grandfather-devil approved what the grandson-imp had done, and set him free.
Who acts: grandfather devil, grandson imp · What happens: approve, do, set · To what, where: devil
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 (grandfather devil, grandson imp), 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 | _ | 6 approved | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 devil | det |
| 3 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 devil | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 grandfather | punct |
| 5 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 approved | nsubj |
| 6 | approved | approve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 done | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 imp | det |
| 9 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 imp | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 grandson | punct |
| 11 | imp | imp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 approved | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 done | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | obj |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 set | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 approved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approve | past | the grandfather devil | vn allow-64.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | the grandson imp | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | the grandson imp not said here | devil | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |
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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