Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 16

At last the rout was over, and the princesses bade farewell to their cavaliers, promised to come another night, turned back home, undressed and lay down to sleep.

Who acts: rout, princesses bade · What happens: be, promise, come, turn back, undress, lay down · To what, where: last · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rout, princesses bade), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 promised	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rout	det
4	rout	rout	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 over	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 over	cop
6	over	over	ADV	_	2 last	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 promised	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 promised	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bade	det
10	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bade	compound
11	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 promised	nsubj
12	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	15 cavaliers	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 cavaliers	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cavaliers	nmod:poss
15	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bade	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bade	punct
17	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 come	mark
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 promised	xcomp
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct
23	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 promised	parataxis
24	back	back	ADV	_	25 home	advmod
25	home	home	ADV	_	23 turned	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 undressed	punct
27	undressed	undress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 turned	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lay	cc
29	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 undressed	conj
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 lay	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 sleep	mark
32	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 lay	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the rout			over property	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	past	the princesses bade to guests's cavaliers	last			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	the princesses bade to guests's cavaliers not said here		night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn back	past				home property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	undress	participle					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lay down	infinitive				down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	sleep	to-infinitive					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 16