Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 132
The old man gave him meat and drink, and afterwards showed him twelve maidens, each of whom was fairer than the others.
Who acts: old man, twelve maidens · What happens: give, show, be · To what, where: meat, room, twelve maidens
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, twelve maidens), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drink | cc |
| 8 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meat | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 showed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 showed | cc |
| 11 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 12 showed | advmod |
| 12 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 showed | iobj |
| 14 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 maidens | nummod |
| 15 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 showed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fairer | punct |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 fairer | det |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 fairer | mark |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 fairer | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fairer | cop |
| 21 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 maidens | acl:relcl |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 others | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 others | det |
| 24 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fairer | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the old man | meat and drink | room | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient meat=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | past | the old man not said here | twelve maidens | room | afterwards property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient maiden=Topic | ||
| 3 | is | past | twelve maidens | than the others; fair property | 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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