Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 148
“Your Imperial Majesty,” quoth he, “please let me spend one night in your empty palace!”
Who acts: Imperial Majesty, master · What happens: quoth, let, spend · To what, where: assemblage, master, empty palace
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Imperial Majesty, master), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Majesty | amod |
| 4 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quoth | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Majesty | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Majesty | punct |
| 7 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 quoth | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 11 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 12 let | discourse |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 quoth | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 night | nummod |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spend | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 palace | nmod:poss |
| 19 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 palace | amod |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spend | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | Your Imperial Majesty | assemblage | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | Your Imperial Majesty not said here | the master = master | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spend in a quote | infinitive | the master = master not said here | your empty palace | night | vn consume-66-1 «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 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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