Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 14
[14] And these children grew up not by days, but by hours, and they shot up fast and began to work and to help the mother and father.
Who acts: children · What happens: grow up, shoot up, begin, work, help · To what, where: 14, mother
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 (children), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 14 | punct |
| 2 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 grew | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 14 | punct |
| 4 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grew | cc |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 children | det |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 grew | compound:prt |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 days | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hours | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 hours | cc |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 hours | case |
| 15 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shot | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shot | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shot | nsubj |
| 19 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 shot | compound:prt |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 shot | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 began | cc |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shot | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 work | mark |
| 25 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 began | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 help | cc |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 help | mark |
| 28 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 work | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mother | det |
| 30 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 help | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 father | cc |
| 32 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mother | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | this children | 14 | day; hour | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | shoot up | past | children = child | fast property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | children = child not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | children = child not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | children = child not said here | the mother and father | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Beneficiary |
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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