Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 132
She was a Fool, but she was his daughter after all, and so the peasant wept for his daughter, took the silver saucer and the apple, put them into a coffer and locked them up.
Who acts: transparency, peasant · What happens: be, weep, take, put, lock up · To what, where: Fool, daughter, silver saucer, daughters, coffer
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 (transparency, peasant), 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 | 4 Fool | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Fool | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Fool | det |
| 4 | Fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 daughter | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 daughter | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 daughter | cop |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Fool | conj |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 daughter | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wept | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 wept | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 peasant | det |
| 17 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wept | nsubj |
| 18 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Fool | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 daughter | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wept | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wept | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 saucer | det |
| 25 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saucer | compound |
| 26 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 apple | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 apple | det |
| 29 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saucer | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 put | punct |
| 31 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 took | conj |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 put | obj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 coffer | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 coffer | det |
| 35 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 put | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 locked | cc |
| 37 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 took | conj |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 locked | obj |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 locked | compound:prt |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Fool | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | transparency | a Fool but Fool's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | transparency | Fool's daughter | after all | Fool nmod:poss | tree rules | ||
| 3 | weep | past | the peasant | for peasant's daughter | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the silver saucer and the apple | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucer=Theme | |||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | daughters = daughter | a coffer | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | ||||
| 6 | lock up | past | daughters = daughter | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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