Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 129
The mother believed her and was extremely glad, and at her death bade her son marry only the woman whom the ring fitted.
Who acts: mother, son · What happens: believe, be, marry, fit · To what, where: witch, woman, death bade
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 (mother, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 believed | nsubj |
| 3 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 believed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 glad | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 glad | cop |
| 7 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 8 glad | advmod |
| 8 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 believed | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 marry | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 marry | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 bade | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bade | nmod:poss |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bade | compound |
| 14 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marry | obl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marry | nsubj |
| 17 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 believed | parataxis |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 woman | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marry | obj |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 fitted | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ring | det |
| 23 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fitted | nsubj |
| 24 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 woman | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | the mother | witch | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the mother not said here | extremely, glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | infinitive | witch's son | the woman | witch's death bade | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient | |||
| 4 | fit | participle · passive | the woman | the ring nsubj | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=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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