Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 40
The old woman went to the Tsar’s palace, and kept walking up and down in front of it.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: go, keep, walk · To what, where: palace, front
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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 | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tsar | det |
| 7 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Tsar | case |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kept | cc |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 kept | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 walking | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 down | cc |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 up | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 front | case |
| 18 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walking | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 front | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old woman | the Tsar's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | the old woman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | the old woman not said here | front of Tsar | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory |
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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