Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 118
And the King ordered the soldier to be brought before him in order that he might see him with his own eyes.
Who acts: King · What happens: order, bring, see · To what, where: soldier, order
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ordered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soldier | det |
| 6 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 brought | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 brought | aux:pass |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ordered | ccomp |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 order | case |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 brought | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eyes | amod |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 see | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the King | the soldier | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the King not said here | order | before King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before he=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | might | King | soldier | with King's own eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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