Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 140
When he was twelve years old he went to the stable to the groom whom he loved, who always told him stories.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: be, go, love, tell · To what, where: groom, stable, stories, Tsar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 old | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 old | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | cop |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 old | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 stable | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stable | det |
| 11 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 groom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 groom | det |
| 14 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 loved | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 loved | nsubj |
| 17 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 told | nsubj |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 told | advmod |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 loved | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 told | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tsar | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | Tsar | the groom | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location to groom=Destination | |||
| 3 | love | past | Tsar | whom obj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | stories | Tsar | who nsubj; always property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic |
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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