Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 155
But the soldier stood firm: he must be admitted into the palace.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: stand, admit · To what, where: man, 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 (soldier), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 stood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 admitted | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 admitted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 admitted | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 admitted | aux:pass |
| 10 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 admitted | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the soldier | firm property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | must · passive | man | the palace | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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