Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 125
Then the sisters looked on and they became envious and wanted to take the saucer away from their sister, but she would not exchange her saucer for anything else in the world.
Who acts: sisters, transparency · What happens: look on, become, want, take, not exchange · To what, where: saucer
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, transparency), 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 looked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sisters | det |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 looked | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 became | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 became | nsubj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 9 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 became | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wanted | cc |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 became | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wanted | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 saucer | det |
| 15 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 take | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 sister | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sister | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 away | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 exchange | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 exchange | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 exchange | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 exchange | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 exchange | advmod |
| 25 | exchange | exchange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 looked | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 saucer | nmod:poss |
| 27 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 exchange | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 anything | case |
| 29 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 exchange | obl |
| 30 | else | else | ADV | _ | 29 anything | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 world | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 anything | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past | the sisters | then | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | become | past | sisters = sister | envious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | want | past | sisters = sister not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | sisters = sister not said here | the saucer | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucer=Theme | |||
| 5 | not exchange | would | transparency | transparency's saucer | for anything in the world | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent saucer=Theme for anything=Co-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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