Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 162

Scarcely had the youth had time to turn round and take a couple of steps, when he found himself under the water and in a white-stone palace--all its rooms splendidly furnished, cunningly decorated.

Who acts: Scarcely, youth · What happens: have, turn round, take, find, furnish, decorate · To what, where: couple, youth, water, rooms

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 turn	mark
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 time	acl
9	round	round	ADV	_	8 turn	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 take	cc
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 turn	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 couple	det
13	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 steps	case
15	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 couple	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 found	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 found	obj
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 water	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 palace	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	30 palace	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 palace	det
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 palace	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 white	punct
29	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 palace	compound
30	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 water	conj
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 rooms	punct
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 rooms	det:predet
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 rooms	nmod:poss
34	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 palace	appos
35	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	36 furnished	advmod
36	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 rooms	acl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 decorated	punct
38	cunningly	cunningly	ADV	_	39 decorated	advmod
39	decorated	decorate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 furnished	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely					tree rules
2	have	past	the youth			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	turn round	to-infinitive	the youth not said here				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	take	infinitive	the youth not said here	a couple of steps				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Theme
5	find	past	youth	youth	the water and a white stone palace			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
6	furnish	participle		palace's rooms not said here			splendidly property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	decorate	participle					cunningly property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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