Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 136
Every night these princesses went where nobody knew: it was only for twenty-four hours, and they always wore out a new pair of shoes.
Who acts: princesses, nobody, soul · What happens: go, know, be, wear out · To what, where: new pair
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princesses, nobody, soul), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 princesses | det |
| 4 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 knew | advmod |
| 7 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 hours | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hours | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hours | cop |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 hours | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 hours | case |
| 14 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 four | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 twenty | punct |
| 16 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hours | nummod |
| 17 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 knew | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wore | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wore | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wore | nsubj |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 wore | advmod |
| 22 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 wore | compound:prt |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pair | det |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pair | amod |
| 26 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wore | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 shoes | case |
| 28 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 pair | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | this princesses | night | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | soul | for four hours | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wear out | past | princesses = princess | a new pair of shoes | always property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pair=Source |
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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