Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 33
Anna the Fair took her conjuring book and searched it through for the riddle—looked the whole book through in vain.
Who acts: Anna · What happens: take, conjure, search through, look · To what, where: Tsarévna, book, whole book, vain
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anna), 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 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fair | det |
| 3 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Anna | appos |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | conjuring | conjure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 took | advcl |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conjuring | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 searched | cc |
| 9 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 searched | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 searched | compound:prt |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 riddle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 riddle | det |
| 14 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 searched | obl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 book | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 book | amod |
| 19 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | obj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 vain | case |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 vain | case |
| 22 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 looked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Anna | Tsarévna | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 2 | conjure | gerund | Anna not said here | book | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Result | ||||
| 3 | search through | past | Anna not said here | book | for the riddle | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Location for riddle=Theme | |||
| 4 | look | past | Anna not said here | the whole book | vain | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme book=Attribute |
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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