Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 9
So off they went and entered the palace, and there saw the soldier trudging up and down gaily in the rooms and smoking his pipe.
Who acts: powers, soldier · What happens: go, enter, see, trudge, smoke · To what, where: palace, soldier, pipe
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 (powers, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 entered | cc |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 saw | advmod |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 soldier | det |
| 14 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | trudging | trudge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 soldier | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 trudging | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 down | cc |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 up | conj |
| 19 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trudging | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 rooms | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rooms | det |
| 22 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gaily | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 smoking | cc |
| 24 | smoking | smoke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 trudging | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 26 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 smoking | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | powers = power | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | powers = power not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | past | powers = power not said here | the soldier | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soldier=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | trudge | gerund | the soldier not said here | gaily property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | smoke | gerund | the soldier not said here | soldier's pipe | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=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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