Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 10
Soon the rumour went forth that in the prince’s palace, in the lofty castle home, familiar spirits were appearing, and never gave the princes rest.
Who acts: rumour, familiar spirits, princes · What happens: go, appear, not give, rest · To what, where: palace, lofty castle
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rumour, familiar spirits, princes), 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 | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rumour | det |
| 3 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 palace | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 prince | case |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 castle | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 castle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 15 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 castle | amod |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 appearing | obl |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 castle | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spirits | punct |
| 19 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spirits | amod |
| 20 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 appearing | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 appearing | aux |
| 22 | appearing | appear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gave | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gave | cc |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 gave | advmod |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 princes | det |
| 28 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 rest | nsubj |
| 29 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 gave | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the rumour | the prince's palace | forth, soon, that property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | |||
| 2 | appear | past · progressive | familiar spirits | the lofty castle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | ||||
| 3 | not give | past | the rumour not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rest | present | the princes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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