Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 148
Feasts were celebrated, rivers of mead flowed, and the Princess would not smile.
Who acts: mead, Princess · What happens: celebrate, flow, not smile · To what, where: Feasts, rivers
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mead, Princess), 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 | Feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 3 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rivers | punct |
| 5 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 celebrated | obl |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 flowed | mark |
| 7 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flowed | nsubj |
| 8 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rivers | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smile | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 smile | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smile | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 smile | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 smile | advmod |
| 15 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 celebrated | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | Feasts | rivers obl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flow | past | mead | rivers not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location river=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not smile | would | the Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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