Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 153
Night-time approached and they gave him a room next to that in which the princesses slept.
Who acts: princesses · What happens: approach, give, sleep · To what, where: room, nobleman
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), 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 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Night | punct |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 approached | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | approached | approach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gave | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 approached | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 11 | next | next | ADV | _ | 7 gave | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 next | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 slept | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princesses | det |
| 17 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 slept | nsubj |
| 18 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 next | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | participle | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | past | princesses = princess | a room | nobleman | next property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient room=Theme | ||
| 3 | sleep | past | the princesses | which obl | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location |
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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