Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 29
The Princess Without a Smile gazed on their services, and she smiled.
Who acts: Princess, flies · What happens: gaze, smile, service
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 (Princess, flies), 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 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gazed | nsubj |
| 3 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 5 Smile | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Smile | det |
| 5 | Smile | Smile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Princess | nmod |
| 6 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 services | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 services | nmod:poss |
| 9 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gazed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 smiled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 smiled | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 smiled | nsubj |
| 13 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gazed | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | the Princess without a Smile | on flies's services | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on service=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | service | flies = fly | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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