Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 32
He had got into the palace of the Sister of the Sun, and cried out, “Sun, Sun! open your big windows.”
Who acts: meantime, Sun · What happens: get, cry out, open · To what, where: palace, big windows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meantime, Sun), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | aux |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Sister | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sister | det |
| 9 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 palace | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Sun | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sun | det |
| 12 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sister | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cried | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 open | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 open | punct |
| 19 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 open | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sun | punct |
| 21 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sun | conj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sun | punct |
| 23 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cried | conj |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 windows | nmod:poss |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 windows | amod |
| 26 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 open | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | meantime | the palace of the Sister of the Sun | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into palace=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | open in a quote | infinitive | Sun and Sun | your big windows | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme |
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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