Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 152
So the poor nobleman thanked the old woman and returned to the palace.
Who acts: poor nobleman · What happens: thank, return · To what, where: old woman
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 (poor nobleman), 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 | _ | 5 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nobleman | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nobleman | amod |
| 4 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thanked | nsubj |
| 5 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thanked | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 returned | cc |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thanked | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the poor nobleman | the old woman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the poor nobleman not said here | to the palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
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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