Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 53
And his trade went so well that it seemed as if the Lord Himself had been sending customers.
Who acts: trade, it, Lord Himself, Iván · What happens: go, seem, send, trade · To what, where: customers
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trade, it, Lord Himself, Iván), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 trade | nmod:poss |
| 3 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 seemed | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | advcl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 sending | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 sending | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Himself | det |
| 13 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Himself | compound |
| 14 | Himself | Himself | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sending | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sending | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 sending | aux |
| 17 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | customers | customer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sending | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Iván's trade | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | send a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · progressive | the Lord Himself | customers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent customer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | trade | Iván | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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