Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 109
He then came to the forecourt and he opened the green coffer, and in front of him a wonderful garden spread out with every kind of tree in it, and the Tsar was so joyous, and forgot to give his son up.
Who acts: multitude, wonderful garden, Tsar · What happens: come, open, spread out, be, forget, not give up · To what, where: forecourt, green coffer, front, son
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (multitude, wonderful garden, Tsar), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 forecourt | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forecourt | det |
| 6 | forecourt | forecourt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 opened | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 opened | nsubj |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coffer | det |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 coffer | amod |
| 12 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spread | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spread | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 front | case |
| 16 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spread | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 front | nmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 garden | det |
| 20 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 garden | amod |
| 21 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spread | nsubj |
| 22 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | advcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 spread | compound:prt |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 kind | case |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 kind | det |
| 26 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spread | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tree | case |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kind | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 tree | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 joyous | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 joyous | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Tsar | det |
| 34 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 joyous | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 joyous | cop |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 joyous | advmod |
| 37 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 forgot | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 forgot | cc |
| 40 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 give | mark |
| 42 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 forgot | xcomp |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 son | nmod:poss |
| 44 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 give | iobj |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 give | compound:prt |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | multitude | the forecourt | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forecourt=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | open | past | multitude | the green coffer | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coffer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spread out | participle | a wonderful garden | front of multitude | with tree in kind | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | the Tsar | joyous property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | forget | past | multitude not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not give up | to-infinitive | multitude not said here | multitude's son | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Source |
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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