Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 102
Then the King put Donotknow into the garden as a scarecrow, to frighten the birds from the apple trees, and he bade him be fed from his royal kitchen.
Who acts: King · What happens: put, frighten, bade, feed · To what, where: Donotknow, garden, birds, apple trees, royal kitchen
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Donotknow | Donotknow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 scarecrow | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 scarecrow | det |
| 11 | scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 frighten | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 frighten | mark |
| 14 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 put | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 birds | det |
| 16 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 frighten | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trees | det |
| 19 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trees | compound |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 frighten | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bade | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bade | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bade | nsubj |
| 24 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bade | obj |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 fed | aux:pass |
| 27 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 bade | xcomp |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 kitchen | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 kitchen | nmod:poss |
| 30 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 kitchen | amod |
| 31 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the King | Donotknow | the garden | then | as a scarecrow | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent donotknow=Goal | |
| 2 | frighten | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the birds | the apple trees | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | bade | past | King | Donotknow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feed | infinitive · passive | King not said here | King's royal kitchen | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.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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