Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 119
Whether he went far or near, whether he took long or short, anyhow he went to the fair, sold his hay, bought the fairings, gave his one daughter the scarlet nankin, the other the red cloth for a sarafan and the Fool a silver saucer and a crystal apple.
Who acts: peasant, other · What happens: go, take, sell, buy, give, cloth · To what, where: fair, hay, fairings, scarlet nankin, one daughter
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 (peasant, other), 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 near | cc |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 far | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 took | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 took | xcomp |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 short | cc |
| 13 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 long | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | anyhow | anyhow | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 fair | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fair | det |
| 20 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sold | punct |
| 22 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hay | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sold | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bought | punct |
| 26 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sold | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fairings | det |
| 28 | fairings | fairing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bought | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gave | punct |
| 30 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 bought | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 daughter | nummod |
| 33 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gave | iobj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 nankin | det |
| 35 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 nankin | compound |
| 36 | nankin | nankin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gave | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 cloth | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 other | det |
| 39 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 cloth | nsubj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 cloth | det |
| 41 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 cloth | amod |
| 42 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 nankin | appos |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 sarafan | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 sarafan | det |
| 45 | sarafan | sarafan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 cloth | nmod |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 Fool | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Fool | det |
| 48 | Fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 nankin | conj |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 saucer | det |
| 50 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 saucer | compound |
| 51 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Fool | nmod |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 apple | cc |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 apple | det |
| 54 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 apple | amod |
| 55 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 saucer | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | peasant | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | peasant | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | peasant | the fair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sell | past | peasant not said here | peasant's hay | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Theme | ||||
| 5 | buy | past | the fairings | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairing=Theme | |||||
| 6 | give | past | the scarlet nankin and the Fool a silver saucer and a crystal apple | peasant's one daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient nankin=Theme | ||||
| 7 | cloth | the other | for a sarafan | tree rules |
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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