Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 13
From that day gold fell from her lips, and she would not have her bridegroom with her.
Who acts: princess · What happens: fall, not have · To what, where: day gold, bridegroom
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 (princess), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 gold | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 gold | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gold | compound |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 lips | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lips | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 have | advmod |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fell | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 have | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | that day gold | from princess's lips | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from gold=Initial_Location from lip=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not have | would | princess | princess's bridegroom | with bridegroom | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=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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