Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 21
But he was too late, and he was shot in front of the castle gate.
Who acts: Woodsprite · What happens: be, shoot · To what, where: Woodsprite, front
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 late | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 late | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 late | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 late | advmod |
| 5 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shot | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shot | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shot | aux:pass |
| 10 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 late | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shot | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gate | det |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gate | compound |
| 16 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 front | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 late | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Woodsprite | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shoot | past · passive | Woodsprite | front of the castle gate | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in front=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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