Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 24
In front of him stood the Tsar’s palace decked with gold and silver, and at the window the Tsarévna Without a Smile sat and gazed on him straight.
Who acts: Tsarévna · What happens: stand, deck, sit, gaze · To what, where: palace, front, window
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévna), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 front | nmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 5 stood | obj |
| 10 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 palace | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 decked | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 silver | cc |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gold | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sat | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sat | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 window | det |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sat | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Tsarévna | det |
| 21 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 sat | nsubj |
| 22 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 24 Smile | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Smile | det |
| 24 | Smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Tsarévna | nmod |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 gazed | cc |
| 27 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sat | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 gazed | obl |
| 30 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 27 gazed | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Tsar's palace | front of money | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palace=Theme in front=Destination | ||||
| 2 | deck | participle | the Tsar's palace not said here | with gold and silver | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | the Tsarévna without a Smile | the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | ||||
| 4 | gaze | past | the Tsarévna without a Smile not said here | on money; straight property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/17/24/