Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 8
Soon he came to a decorated, raised, clean-cut palace, marched in there, and looked.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: come, decorate, raise, cut, march, look · To what, where: decorated clean cut 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 (soldier), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 6 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 palace | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 raised | punct |
| 8 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 decorated | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 palace | punct |
| 10 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 palace | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 clean | punct |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 palace | amod |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 marched | punct |
| 15 | marched | march | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 palace | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 there | case |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 marched | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | soldier | a decorated clean cut palace | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | decorate | participle | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | cut | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | march | participle | a decorated clean cut palace not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in there=Trajectory | |||||
| 6 | look | past | soldier not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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