Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 121
Both sisters were overjoyed, sewed sarafans, and mocked the Fool, and waited to see what she would do with her silver saucer and crystal apple.
Who acts: sisters, other · What happens: overjoy, sew, mock, wait, see, do · To what, where: sisters, sarafans, Fool · 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 (sisters, 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 sisters | det |
| 2 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sewed | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 4 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sisters | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sisters | punct |
| 6 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sarafans | sarafan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sewed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mocked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mocked | cc |
| 10 | mocked | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sewed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fool | det |
| 12 | Fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mocked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 waited | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 waited | cc |
| 15 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sewed | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 waited | advcl |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 do | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 see | ccomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 saucer | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 saucer | nmod:poss |
| 24 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 saucer | amod |
| 25 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 apple | cc |
| 27 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 apple | amod |
| 28 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saucer | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | both sisters not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sew | past | both sisters | sarafans | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sarafan=Product | ||||
| 3 | mock | past | both sisters not said here | the Fool | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wait | past | both sisters not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | both sisters not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | do | would | other | with other's silver saucer and crystal apple; what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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