Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 31
The princesses had to acknowledge their guilt, and the king bade the entrance to the subterranean realm be slated up.
Who acts: princesses · What happens: have, acknowledge, slate up · To what, where: guilt, king bade
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 (princesses), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princesses | det |
| 2 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 acknowledge | mark |
| 5 | acknowledge | acknowledge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 guilt | nmod:poss |
| 7 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 acknowledge | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 slated | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 slated | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bade | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bade | compound |
| 12 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slated | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 entrance | det |
| 14 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slated | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 realm | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 realm | det |
| 17 | subterranean | subterranean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 realm | amod |
| 18 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entrance | nmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 slated | aux:pass |
| 20 | slated | slate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 slated | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the princesses | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | acknowledge | to-infinitive | the princesses not said here | flowers's guilt | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guilt=Topic | ||||
| 3 | slate up | infinitive · passive | the king bade | the entrance to the subterranean realm nsubj:pass | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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