Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 140
So she got up, looked out of the open windows, glanced through them all, and then she saw and recognised her bridegroom, took him to herself, and soon the betrothal took place.
Who acts: bride, betrothal · What happens: get up, look out, glance, see, recognise, take · To what, where: open windows, bridegroom, bride, place
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 (bride, betrothal), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 got | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 windows | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 windows | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 windows | det |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 windows | amod |
| 11 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glanced | punct |
| 13 | glanced | glance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 windows | acl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 glanced | obl:agent |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 saw | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 recognised | cc |
| 23 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 saw | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 25 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 recognised | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 took | punct |
| 27 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 saw | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 took | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 herself | case |
| 30 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 took | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 took | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 took | cc |
| 33 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 took | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 betrothal | det |
| 35 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 took | nsubj |
| 36 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 37 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 took | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | bride | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | look out | past | bride not said here | the open windows | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | glance | participle | the open windows not said here | windows = window obl:agent | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past | bride | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | recognise | past | bride not said here | bride's bridegroom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bridegroom=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | take | past | bride not said here | bridegroom | bride | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to herself=Destination | |||
| 7 | take | past | the betrothal | place | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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