Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 26
In the buttons he was bidden mould the wild beasts of the wood and to sew into the buttonholes all the seabirds.
What happens: bid, sew · To what, where: DANÍLO, buttons, seabirds, buttonholes
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 buttons | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 buttons | det |
| 3 | buttons | buttons | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bidden | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bidden | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bidden | aux:pass |
| 6 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | mould | mould | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bidden | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beasts | det |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beasts | amod |
| 10 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bidden | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beasts | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sew | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sew | mark |
| 16 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bidden | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 buttonholes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 buttonholes | det |
| 19 | buttonholes | buttonhole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sew | obl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 seabirds | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 seabirds | det |
| 22 | seabirds | seabird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sew | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | past · passive | DANÍLO = danílo | the buttons | mould obj; the wild beasts of the wood obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sew | to-infinitive | all seabirds | the buttonholes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent seabird=Material into buttonhole=Product |
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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