Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 18
At the same time the brothers-in-law of Iván Tsarévich looked at their silver ornaments and found they had turned black.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: look, find, turn · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (brothers), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brothers | det |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 law | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 law | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 in | punct |
| 10 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brothers | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Iván | case |
| 12 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 law | nmod |
| 13 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Iván | flat |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 ornaments | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ornaments | nmod:poss |
| 17 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ornaments | compound |
| 18 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looked | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 looked | conj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 turned | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 turned | aux |
| 23 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 found | ccomp |
| 24 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 turned | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the brothers in law of Iván | time | at brothers's silver ornaments | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ornament=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | the brothers in law of Iván not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | past · perfect | brothers = brother | black property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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