Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 58
Princess Eléna the Fair was frightened to death, and swore by all the holy relics that she would do as she was bidden.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: frighten, swear, do, bid · To what, where: Princess
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 (Princess), 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 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Princess | flat |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fair | det |
| 4 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Princess | flat |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | aux:pass |
| 6 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frightened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swore | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 swore | cc |
| 11 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 relics | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 relics | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 relics | det |
| 15 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 relics | amod |
| 16 | relics | relic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 swore | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 swore | xcomp |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 bidden | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 bidden | aux:pass |
| 24 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 do | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | Princess | to death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | swear | past | by all holy relics | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | would | Princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bid | past · passive | Princess | 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: «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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