Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 13
He, with his lacqueys, met them; music sounded; and they began dancing: and they danced until their shoes were worn thin.
Who acts: lacqueys, music · What happens: meet, sound, begin, dance, wear · To what, where: lacqueys, shoes
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lacqueys, music), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lacqueys | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lacqueys | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 lacqueys | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lacqueys | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lacqueys | lacquey | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lacqueys | acl:relcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sounded | punct |
| 10 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sounded | nsubj |
| 11 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lacqueys | parataxis |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sounded | conj |
| 16 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 began | xcomp |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 danced | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 danced | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 danced | nsubj |
| 20 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sounded | conj |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 worn | mark |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 worn | aux:pass |
| 25 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 danced | advcl |
| 26 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 worn | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lacqueys | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | grove's lacqueys grove not said here | lacqueys = lacquey | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | sound | past | music | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | lacqueys = lacquey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | dance | gerund | lacqueys = lacquey not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dance | past | lacqueys = lacquey | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | wear | past · passive | lacqueys's shoes | thin property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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