Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 20
He came to the palace, was seized, but prayed for mercy.
Who acts: Woodsprite · What happens: come, seize, pray · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodsprite), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 palace | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seized | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | aux:pass |
| 8 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 prayed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 prayed | cc |
| 11 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 mercy | case |
| 13 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prayed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Woodsprite | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | seize | past · passive | Woodsprite not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | pray | past | Woodsprite not said here | for mercy | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for mercy=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.
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