Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 124
The apprentice was very pleased with the dish, swallowed it all, and became neither a king nor a king’s son, but simply a fool.
Who acts: apprentice · What happens: be, swallow, become · To what, where: dish, king
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 (apprentice), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 apprentice | det |
| 2 | apprentice | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 dish | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dish | det |
| 8 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swallowed | punct |
| 10 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 swallowed | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 it | det |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 16 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 king | cc:preconj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | xcomp |
| 19 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 son | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 king | case |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 king | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fool | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 fool | cc |
| 26 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 28 fool | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fool | det |
| 28 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the apprentice | with the dish; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swallow | past | the apprentice not said here | dish | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the apprentice not said here | a king nor a king's son | a fool xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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