Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 49
So the old man was persuaded, and he showed the King, who instantly had the Woodsprite arrested and confined in a narrow tower.
Who acts: Woodsprite, King · What happens: persuade, show, have, arrest, confine · To what, where: old man, King, narrow tower
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 (Woodsprite, King), 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 | _ | 6 persuaded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 persuaded | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 6 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 showed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 showed | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 showed | nsubj |
| 10 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 persuaded | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 had | nsubj |
| 15 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 16 had | advmod |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 King | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Woodsprite | det |
| 18 | Woodsprite | Woodsprite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 arrested | nsubj |
| 19 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 confined | cc |
| 21 | confined | confine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 arrested | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 tower | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tower | det |
| 24 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tower | amod |
| 25 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 confined | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 persuaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade | past · passive | the old man | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | show | past | Woodsprite | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the King | instantly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | arrest | past | the Woodsprite | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | confine | past | the Woodsprite not said here | a narrow tower | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in tower=Destination |
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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