Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 119
But they never imagined that it was Donotknow whom the King had set in the garden as a scarecrow.
Who acts: Hail, Brave · What happens: not imagine, be, set · To what, where: Donotknow, King, garden
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 (Hail, Brave), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 imagined | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 imagined | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 imagined | advmod |
| 4 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 Donotknow | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Donotknow | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Donotknow | cop |
| 8 | Donotknow | Donotknow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 imagined | parataxis |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 set | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 set | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 set | aux |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Donotknow | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 garden | det |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 scarecrow | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 scarecrow | det |
| 19 | scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | past | Hail | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Brave | Donotknow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set | past · perfect · passive | the King | the garden | as a scarecrow; Donotknow obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in garden=Destination |
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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