Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 13
A fair Tsarévna was coming in with her maids of honour and attendants.
Who acts: fair Tsarévna · What happens: come in
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair Tsarévna), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Tsarévna | det |
| 2 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tsarévna | amod |
| 3 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 coming | aux |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 coming | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 maids | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 maids | nmod:poss |
| 9 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 coming | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 honour | case |
| 11 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 maids | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 attendants | cc |
| 13 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 honour | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past · progressive | a fair Tsarévna | with Tsarévna's maids of honour and attendants | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP 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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