Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 4
Then he returned to his room, and sat there as though nothing had happened, whilst his servant boasted that he had gone to the battle and slain the foe.
Who acts: son, nothing, servant · What happens: return, sit, happen, boast, go, slain · To what, where: battle, foe
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 (son, nothing, servant), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 room | nmod:poss |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 sat | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 sat | advmod |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 happened | mark |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happened | aux |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 sat | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 boasted | punct |
| 17 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 20 boasted | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 servant | nmod:poss |
| 19 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boasted | nsubj |
| 20 | boasted | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happened | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 gone | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gone | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gone | aux |
| 24 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 boasted | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 battle | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 battle | det |
| 27 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gone | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 slain | cc |
| 29 | slain | slain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 gone | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 foe | det |
| 31 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 slain | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | son | then | to son's room result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result | |||
| 2 | sit | past | son not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | boast speech: other | past | son's servant | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | past · perfect | son | the battle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to battle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | slain | infinitive | son not said here | the foe | tree rules |
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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