Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 125
Once upon a time there was an aged queen who had a son and a daughter, who were fine, sturdy children.
Who acts: aged queen, son · What happens: be, have · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aged queen, son), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 8 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 queen | amod |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 queen | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 daughter | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 daughter | det |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fine | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 fine | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fine | cop |
| 20 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 son | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 children | punct |
| 22 | sturdy | sturdy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 children | amod |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fine | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a aged queen | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | a aged queen | a son and a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a son and a daughter | sturdy children obl; fine property | 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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