Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 159
And he therefore mixed the maidens together and told him to make a second choice.
Who acts: boy · What happens: mix, tell, make · To what, where: maidens, boy, second choice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy), 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 | _ | 4 mixed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mixed | nsubj |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 mixed | advmod |
| 4 | mixed | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maidens | det |
| 6 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mixed | obj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 mixed | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mixed | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 told | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 choice | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 choice | amod |
| 15 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | past | boy | the maidens | therefore, together property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | boy not said here | boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | a second choice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=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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