Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 116
The King and the Princess looked on in amazement from the city wall: “What a mighty hero it must be!
Who acts: King · What happens: look on · To what, where: amazement
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Princess | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 looked | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 amazement | case |
| 9 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 wall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wall | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wall | compound |
| 13 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 hero | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 hero | punct |
| 16 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 19 hero | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hero | det |
| 18 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hero | amod |
| 19 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 be | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 be | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hero | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past | the King and the Princess | amazement | from the city wall; what mighty hero parataxis | tree rules |
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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