Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 35
There was no loitering at the king’s court; very soon all was got ready, and Iván was affianced to Princess Olyóna.
Who acts: loitering, Princess · What happens: be, get, affiance · To what, where: court, all, Iván
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 (loitering, Princess), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 loitering | det |
| 4 | loitering | loitering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 court | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 court | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 got | advmod |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 got | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | aux:pass |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 was | parataxis |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 got | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 affianced | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 affianced | cc |
| 19 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 affianced | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 affianced | aux:pass |
| 21 | affianced | affiance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 got | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Princess | case |
| 23 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 affianced | obl:agent |
| 24 | Olyóna | Olyóna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Princess | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no loitering | the king's court; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location | ||||
| 2 | get | past · passive | all | ready, soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | affiance | past · passive | Princess | Iván | tree rules |
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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