Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 137
She tried it on her finger, and the ring was firmly fixed as if it had been soldered on, as though it had been made for her.
Who acts: sister · What happens: try, fix, solder on, make · To what, where: sorrow, finger, ring
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 (sister), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 finger | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 finger | nmod:poss |
| 6 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fixed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fixed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fixed | aux:pass |
| 12 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 13 fixed | advmod |
| 13 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tried | conj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 soldered | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 soldered | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 soldered | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 soldered | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 soldered | aux:pass |
| 19 | soldered | solder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fixed | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 soldered | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 made | mark |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 made | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 made | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 made | aux:pass |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 soldered | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 made | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | sister | sorrow | sister's finger | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | fix | past · passive | the ring | firmly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | solder on | past · perfect · passive | ring | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect · passive | ring | for sister | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for she=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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