Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 54
Tsar Bárkhat obeyed the counsel of his ancient evil housekeeper and ordered his attendants to hang an embroidery-frame and a flint-lock up in the palace.
Who acts: Tsar, attendants · What happens: obey, order, hang, lock up · To what, where: counsel, attendants, embroidery frame, flint, 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 (Tsar, attendants), 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 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | Bárkhat | Bárkhat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tsar | flat |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 counsel | det |
| 5 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 housekeeper | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 housekeeper | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 housekeeper | amod |
| 9 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 housekeeper | amod |
| 10 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 counsel | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ordered | cc |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 14 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ordered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hang | mark |
| 16 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ordered | xcomp |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 frame | det |
| 18 | embroidery | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 frame | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 embroidery | punct |
| 20 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hang | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lock | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 flint | det |
| 23 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lock | obl |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 lock | punct |
| 25 | lock | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 lock | compound:prt |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 palace | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 palace | det |
| 29 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lock | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | Tsar | the counsel of King's ancient evil housekeeper | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | Tsar not said here | King's attendants | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent attendant=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hang not said to happen | to-infinitive | King's attendants not said here | a embroidery frame | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frame=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lock up | present | Tsar not said here | a flint | the palace | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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