Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 102

Vast were his palaces, iron railings surrounded his courtyards, and the railings were covered with the heads of various warriors; only on the twenty huge pillars in front of the gate were there no heads.

Who acts: Vast, iron railings, palaces · What happens: be, surround, cover · To what, where: palaces, courtyards, railings, twenty huge pillars

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vast, iron railings, palaces), 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	Vast	vast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 palaces	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 palaces	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 palaces	nmod:poss
4	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 there	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 railings	punct
6	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 railings	compound
7	railings	railing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 palaces	conj
8	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 railings	acl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 courtyards	nmod:poss
10	courtyards	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 surrounded	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 covered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 covered	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 railings	det
14	railings	railing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 covered	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 covered	aux:pass
16	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 palaces	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 heads	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 heads	det
19	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 covered	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 warriors	case
21	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 warriors	amod
22	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 heads	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 pillars	punct
24	only	only	ADV	_	29 pillars	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	29 pillars	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pillars	det
27	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 pillars	nummod
28	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pillars	amod
29	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 covered	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 front	case
31	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pillars	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 gate	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 gate	det
34	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 front	nmod
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 there	cop
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 heads	det
38	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 there	obl:unmarked
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Vast	Thrice's palaces and iron railings			tree rules
2	surround	participle	iron railings not said here	Thrice's courtyards			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Co-Theme
3	cover	past · passive	Thrice's palaces and iron railings not said here	the railings	the twenty huge pillars in front of the gate	with the heads of various warriors	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with head=Theme
4	is	past	Thrice's palaces and iron railings			no heads obl:unmarked; there 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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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