Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 22
The wedding of the King’s son was very jolly, and all the inns and all the beer-houses were opened for an entire week, for everybody, without any charge.
Who acts: wedding · What happens: be, open, wed · To what, where: inns, son
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 (wedding), 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 wedding | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jolly | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 son | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 King | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wedding | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jolly | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 jolly | advmod |
| 10 | jolly | jolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 opened | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 opened | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 inns | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 inns | det |
| 15 | inns | inn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 houses | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 houses | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 houses | det |
| 19 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 houses | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 beer | punct |
| 21 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 inns | conj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 opened | aux:pass |
| 23 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 jolly | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 week | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 week | det |
| 26 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 week | amod |
| 27 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 opened | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 everybody | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 everybody | case |
| 30 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 opened | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 charge | punct |
| 32 | without | without | ADP | _ | 34 charge | case |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 charge | det |
| 34 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 opened | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 jolly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wedding of the King's son | jolly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | past · passive | all inns and all beer houses | week | without any charge; everybody parataxis | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | wed | the King's son | nom wedding «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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