Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 38
So they went into the palace, looked at the Tsarévna, asked for special huts from the Tsar, for a can of water, for a curved sabre, and a large table.
Who acts: doctors · What happens: go, look, ask, curve · To what, where: palace, large table
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 (doctors), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Tsarévna | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Tsarévna | det |
| 11 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 huts | case |
| 15 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 huts | amod |
| 16 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 asked | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Tsar | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Tsar | det |
| 19 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 huts | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 water | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 water | aux |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sabre | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 sabre | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 sabre | det |
| 29 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 sabre | amod |
| 30 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 table | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 table | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 table | det |
| 34 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 table | amod |
| 35 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | doctors = doctor | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | doctors = doctor not said here | at the Tsarévna | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tsarévna=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | doctors = doctor not said here | a large table | for special huts from the Tsar; for a water; for a curved sabre | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | curve | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
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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