Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 16
In the evening, when the little sun was setting fast to the West, Princess Eléna the Fair went into the garden to take a walk with all of her maids of honour and servants and attendants and all the _boyáryni_[17] around.
Who acts: little sun, Fair · What happens: set, go, take · To what, where: garden, walk
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little sun, Fair), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 setting | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 setting | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sun | amod |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 setting | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 setting | aux |
| 10 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 went | advcl |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 setting | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 West | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 West | det |
| 14 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 setting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Princess | punct |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 West | conj |
| 17 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Princess | flat |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Fair | det |
| 19 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 garden | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 garden | det |
| 23 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 went | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 walk | det |
| 27 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 take | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 maids | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 maids | nmod:poss |
| 32 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 all | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 honour | case |
| 34 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 maids | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 servants | cc |
| 36 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 maids | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 attendants | cc |
| 38 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 maids | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 around | cc |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 boyáryni | det:predet |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 boyáryni | det |
| 42 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 boyáryni | punct |
| 43 | boyáryni | boyáryni | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 around | nsubj |
| 44 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 48 around | punct |
| 45 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 48 around | punct |
| 46 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 48 around | nummod |
| 47 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 46 17 | punct |
| 48 | around | around | ADV | _ | 20 went | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · progressive | the little sun | to the West and Princess; fast property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the Fair | the garden | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | the Fair not said here | a walk | with all of Fair's maids of honour and servants and attendants | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme |
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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