Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 2
So they all put on their best clothes, and the elder sister went to her bedside, moved the bed, and an entrance into the subterranean realm instantly opened up beneath, leading to the home of the Accursèd Tsar.
Who acts: sisters, elder sister, entrance · What happens: put, go, move, open up, lead · To what, where: best clothes, bedside, bed
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 (sisters, elder sister, entrance), 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 put | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 put | advmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 clothes | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 clothes | amod |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sister | det |
| 12 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sister | amod |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 bedside | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bedside | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bedside | bedside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 moved | punct |
| 19 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bed | det |
| 21 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 moved | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 opened | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 opened | cc |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 entrance | det |
| 25 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 opened | nsubj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 realm | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 realm | det |
| 28 | subterranean | subterranean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 realm | amod |
| 29 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entrance | nmod |
| 30 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 31 opened | advmod |
| 31 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | parataxis |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 opened | compound:prt |
| 33 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 31 opened | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 leading | punct |
| 35 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 opened | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 home | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 home | det |
| 38 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 leading | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Tsar | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Tsar | det |
| 41 | Accursèd | Accursèd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Tsar | compound |
| 42 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 home | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | sisters = sister | sisters's best clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the elder sister | her bedside | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bedside=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | move | past | the elder sister not said here | the bed | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bed=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open up | past | a entrance into the subterranean realm | beneath, instantly property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | lead | gerund | a entrance into the subterranean realm not said here | to the home of the Accursèd Tsar | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to home=Patient |
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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