Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 28
Then there was a knocking and a thundering, and an entire host appeared in the palace.
Who acts: knocking, entire host · What happens: be, appear · To what, where: palace
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 (knocking, entire host), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 knocking | det |
| 5 | knocking | knocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thundering | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thundering | det |
| 8 | thundering | thundering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knocking | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appeared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 appeared | cc |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 host | det |
| 12 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 host | amod |
| 13 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 was | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a knocking and a thundering | there | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | appear | past | a entire host | the palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
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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