Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 88
Iván came up to the king, and in his hands there was a golden vessel covered by a _fatá_, and in the golden vessel there was a brick.
Who acts: Iván, brick · What happens: come up, be, cover · To what, where: golden vessel
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 (Iván, brick), 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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 vessel | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 was | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 was | obl |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 vessel | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 vessel | det |
| 15 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 vessel | amod |
| 16 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 vessel | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 fatá | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fatá | det |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 fatá | punct |
| 21 | fatá | fatá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | obl |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 covered | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 was | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 was | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 vessel | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 vessel | det |
| 27 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 vessel | amod |
| 28 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 was | obl |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 was | expl |
| 30 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 brick | det |
| 32 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 was | nsubj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Iván | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a golden vessel | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cover | participle | a golden vessel not said here | by a fatá | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | past | a brick | the golden vessel; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vessel=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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