Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 135
Then the maiden woke up, and the skin of age-long filth had been broken; she went and traded with the five hundred roubles, came to the Holy Mountains, and presented herself there in all her maiden beauty.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: wake up, break, go, trade, come, present · To what, where: skin, Holy Mountains, maiden, maiden beauty
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 woke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woke | nsubj |
| 4 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 woke | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 broken | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 broken | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 skin | det |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 filth | case |
| 11 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 long | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 age | punct |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 filth | amod |
| 14 | filth | filth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skin | nmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 broken | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 broken | aux:pass |
| 17 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 woke | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 traded | cc |
| 22 | traded | trade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 roubles | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 roubles | det |
| 25 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 hundred | compound |
| 26 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 roubles | nummod |
| 27 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 traded | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 came | punct |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Mountains | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Mountains | det |
| 32 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 33 Mountains | compound |
| 33 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 came | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 presented | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 presented | cc |
| 36 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | conj |
| 37 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 presented | obj |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 presented | advmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 beauty | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 beauty | det:predet |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 42 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 beauty | amod |
| 43 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 presented | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | the maiden | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | break | past · perfect · passive | the skin of long filth | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | go | past | maiden | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | trade | past | maiden not said here | with the hundred roubles | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rouble=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | come | past | maiden not said here | the Holy Mountains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | present | past | the maiden not said here | maiden | maiden's maiden beauty; there | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
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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