Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 7
So they all went down the flight of steps into a grove, and in that grove there were golden flowers.
Who acts: sisters, golden flowers · What happens: go down, be · To what, where: flight, grove
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, golden flowers), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 flight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flight | det |
| 7 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 steps | case |
| 9 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flight | nmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 grove | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 grove | det |
| 12 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 steps | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 were | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 were | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 grove | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 grove | det |
| 17 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 were | obl |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 were | expl |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flowers | amod |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 were | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | sisters = sister | the flight of steps into a grove | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient flight=Extent | ||||
| 2 | be | past | golden flowers | that grove; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grove=Location |
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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