Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 19
When the King heard such wonderful music he summoned the harpist into the palace.
Who acts: King · What happens: hear, summon · To what, where: such wonderful music, harpist, palace
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 summoned | advcl |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 music | amod |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 music | amod |
| 7 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 summoned | nsubj |
| 9 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 harpist | det |
| 11 | harpist | harpist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 summoned | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 summoned | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the King | such wonderful music | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | summon | past | King | the harpist | the palace | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harpist=Recipient |
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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