Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 81
As she came in she prayed devoutly, crossed herself, as is seemly, and bowed to all four quarters, and sat together with the Tsar at table.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: come, pray, cross, be, bow, sit · To what, where: Tsar, table
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), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 crossed | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 prayed | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 prayed | nsubj |
| 6 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | advcl |
| 7 | devoutly | devoutly | ADV | _ | 6 prayed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crossed | punct |
| 9 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 crossed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 is | mark |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 crossed | parataxis |
| 14 | seemly | seemly | ADV | _ | 13 is | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bowed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bowed | cc |
| 17 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 crossed | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 quarters | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 quarters | det |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 quarters | nummod |
| 21 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bowed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sat | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sat | cc |
| 24 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 crossed | parataxis |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 sat | advmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 Tsar | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Tsar | det |
| 28 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sat | obl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 table | case |
| 30 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sat | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Tsar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pray | past | Tsar | devoutly property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | cross | past | Tsar | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||||
| 4 | be | present | seemly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bow | participle | to all four quarters | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to quarter=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sit | past | table | with the Tsar; together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
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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