Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 98

So the Tsar drove into the city and ordered that at all his feasts the plates should be neither of silver nor of pewter, nor of copper nor of wood, but only of clay.

Who acts: Tsar · What happens: drive, order · To what, where: city

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	So	so	ADV	_	4 drove	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsar	det
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drove	nsubj
4	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 city	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 city	det
7	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ordered	cc
9	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drove	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 feasts	mark
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 feasts	det
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 feasts	nmod:poss
14	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ordered	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 plates	det
16	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 feasts	conj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 neither	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 neither	cop
19	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	14 feasts	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 silver	case
21	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 neither	nmod
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 pewter	cc
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 pewter	case
24	pewter	pewter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 silver	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 copper	punct
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	28 copper	cc
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 copper	case
28	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 silver	conj
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	31 wood	cc
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 wood	case
31	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 copper	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 clay	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 clay	cc
34	only	only	ADV	_	36 clay	advmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 clay	case
36	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feasts	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	the Tsar			the city			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into city=Trajectory
2	order	past	the Tsar not said here					Tsar's feasts and the plates but clay ccomp	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 98

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 98