Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 154
“But I tell you: a man enters the palace at night alive, and only his bones are found there in the morning!”
Who acts: Tsar, man · What happens: tell, enter, find · To what, where: you, palace, bones · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tsar, man), 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 tell | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 enters | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enters | nsubj |
| 9 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enters | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enters | obl |
| 14 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 enters | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 bones | advmod |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bones | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 found | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tell | conj |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 found | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 morning | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 morning | det |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | the Tsar = tsar | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | enter in a quote | present | a man | the palace | night | alive property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||
| 3 | find in a quote | present · passive | man's bones | there | morning | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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