Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 126
This also did not please the King, and so he wrote in answer that he would await him with his host.
Who acts: This, King · What happens: not please, write, await · To what, where: King, answer, prince
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 please | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 please | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 please | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 please | advmod |
| 5 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 please | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wrote | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wrote | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 wrote | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wrote | nsubj |
| 12 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 please | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 answer | case |
| 14 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wrote | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 await | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 await | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 await | aux |
| 18 | await | await | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wrote | ccomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 await | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 host | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 host | nmod:poss |
| 22 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 await | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 please | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not please | past · do-support | This | the King | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | write | past | King | answer | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | await | would | King | prince | with prince's host | 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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