Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 108

She never said a word and was always ready to weed the grass, break off lamp-splinters, feed the cows and ducks, and whatever anybody asked for the Little Fool would bring.

Who acts: two, anybody, Little Fool · What happens: not say, be, weed, break off, feed, ask · To what, where: word, grass, lamp splinters, cows, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, anybody, Little Fool), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ready	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ready	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 ready	advmod
9	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 weed	mark
11	weed	weed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ready	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grass	det
13	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 break	punct
15	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 weed	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 break	compound:prt
17	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 splinters	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 lamp	punct
19	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 break	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 feed	punct
21	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 break	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cows	det
23	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 feed	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ducks	cc
25	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cows	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 asked	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 asked	cc
28	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 asked	obj
29	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 asked	nsubj
30	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 bring	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Fool	det
33	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Fool	amod
34	Fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bring	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 bring	aux
36	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 asked	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past	two	a word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	is	past	two not said here			always, ready property	tree rules
3	weed	to-infinitive	two not said here	the grass			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Source
4	break off	infinitive	two not said here	lamp splinters			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer splinter=Patient
5	feed	present	two not said here		the cows and ducks		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Recipient
6	ask speech: ask	past	anybody	whatever			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent whatever=Recipient clause=Topic
7	bring	would	the Little Fool				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 108

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Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 108