Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 3
They all went down a flight of stairs, and the poor nobleman quietly got off his bed, put on the cap of invisibility, and followed them.
Who acts: sisters, poor nobleman · What happens: go down, get off, put, follow · To what, where: flight, bed, cap, sisters
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, poor nobleman), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 flight | det |
| 6 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stairs | case |
| 8 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flight | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nobleman | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nobleman | amod |
| 13 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | nsubj |
| 14 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 15 got | advmod |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 got | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bed | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 got | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 cap | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cap | det |
| 23 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 invisibility | case |
| 25 | invisibility | invisibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cap | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 followed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 followed | cc |
| 28 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 followed | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | sisters = sister | a flight of stairs | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | get off | past | the poor nobleman | nobleman's bed | quietly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | put | participle | the poor nobleman not said here | the cap of invisibility | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cap=Destination | ||||
| 4 | follow | past | sisters = sister not said here | sisters = sister | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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