Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 11

Two weeks later he and his wife went to see, and they found that there were children born of the eggs, and they looked again and they found that forty of the children were fine, strong and healthy, and there was one who was a weakling.

Who acts: house, man, children, one · What happens: go, see, find, be, bear, look · To what, where: children, forty, weakling · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, man, children, one), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 went	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wife	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 he	conj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 were	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 were	expl
17	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	ccomp
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 were	nsubj
19	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 children	acl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 eggs	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 eggs	det
22	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 born	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 looked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 looked	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looked	nsubj
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	parataxis
27	again	again	ADV	_	26 looked	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 found	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 found	nsubj
30	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 looked	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 forty	mark
32	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 found	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 children	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 children	det
35	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 forty	nmod
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 fine	cop
37	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 children	amod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 strong	punct
39	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 fine	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 healthy	cc
41	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 fine	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 was	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 was	cc
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	45 was	expl
45	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	parataxis
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 was	nsubj
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 weakling	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 weakling	cop
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 weakling	det
50	weakling	weakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 one	acl:relcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	house				late property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	to-infinitive	house not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	find	past	man					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	be	past	children		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bear	participle		children not said here			of the eggs	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	look	past	man			again		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	find	past	man	forty of the children				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forty=Topic
8	is	past					fine property	tree rules
9	be							tree rules
10	be							tree rules
11	be	past	one		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	is a	past		a weakling			who nsubj	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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 11

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 11