Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 131
Very many of them he liked, only as soon as he put the ring on their finger it was either too broad or too narrow.
Who acts: many, boy, ring · What happens: like, put, be · To what, where: ring, finger
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 (many, boy, ring), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 liked | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 many | nmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 liked | nsubj |
| 6 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 soon | punct |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 liked | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 put | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | nsubj |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 soon | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 finger | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 finger | nmod:poss |
| 18 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 broad | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 broad | cop |
| 21 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 broad | advmod |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 broad | advmod |
| 23 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 finger | acl:relcl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 narrow | cc |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 narrow | advmod |
| 26 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 broad | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | many of children | boy nsubj; soon property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | put | past | boy | the ring | children's finger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | ring | children's finger not said here | broad, either property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | ring not said here | 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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