Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 106
At the gate there stands a watchman; take his keys and pass through seven doors, and when you open the last the eagle will flap his wings.
Who acts: you, eagle · What happens: stand, take, pass through, open, flap · To what, where: watchman, gate, keys, seven doors, last, wings
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, eagle), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 gate | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gate | det |
| 3 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stands | obl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stands | advmod |
| 5 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 watchman | det |
| 7 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stands | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 stands | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 keys | nmod:poss |
| 11 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pass | cc |
| 13 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | conj |
| 14 | through | through | ADV | _ | 15 seven | advmod |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 doors | nummod |
| 16 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pass | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 flap | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 flap | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 open | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 open | nsubj |
| 21 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 flap | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 last | det |
| 23 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 open | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 eagle | det |
| 25 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flap | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 flap | aux |
| 27 | flap | flap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stands | advcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 wings | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 flap | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a watchman | the gate; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent watchman=Theme at gate=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | Bába's keys | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pass through | present | seven doors | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | open | present | you | the last | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location last=Theme | ||||
| 5 | flap | future | the eagle | Bába's wings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
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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