Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 94
So the King bade the portent be presented before his eyes.
What happens: present · To what, where: King bade
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 presented | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bade | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 portent | det |
| 6 | portent | portent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 presented | aux:pass |
| 8 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 presented | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | infinitive · passive | the King bade | before Donotknow's eyes | the portent nsubj:pass | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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