Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 36
If only the buttons had been moulded and the silken buttonholes sewn!
What happens: mould, sew · To what, where: buttons, silken 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 moulded | mark |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 buttons | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 buttons | det |
| 4 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 moulded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 moulded | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 moulded | aux:pass |
| 7 | moulded | mould | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sewn | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 buttonholes | det |
| 10 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 buttonholes | amod |
| 11 | buttonholes | buttonhole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sewn | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 moulded | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 moulded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mould | past · perfect · passive | the buttons | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sew | participle · passive | the silken buttonholes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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