Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 67

And he began to tell how the two old folks had lived together, how they had had a hen which laid jewels, and how the mother had made friends with the apprentice.

Who acts: brother, two old folks, food, hen · What happens: begin, tell, live together, have, lay, make · To what, where: hen, jewels, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (brother, two old folks, food, hen), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 began	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 lived	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 folks	det
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 folks	nummod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 folks	amod
10	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lived	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lived	aux
12	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 tell	advcl
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 lived	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 had	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 had	aux
18	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 lived	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hen	det
20	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 laid	nsubj
22	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hen	acl:relcl
23	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 laid	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 made	cc
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 made	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mother	det
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 made	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 made	aux
30	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 began	parataxis
31	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 made	xcomp
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 apprentice	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 apprentice	det
34	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 friends	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	brother			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	brother not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	live together	past · perfect	the two old folks		together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past · perfect	food	a hen		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient
5	lay	past	a hen	jewels		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Result
6	make	past · perfect · passive		the mother	friends with the apprentice xcomp	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 67

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 67