Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 13
He was making ready for a great celebration, and the guests came to walk in the garden; and they saw Donotknow and asked, “What sort of a monster is this?”
Who acts: Donotknow, guests, King · What happens: make, come, walk, see, ask, be · To what, where: garden, Donotknow, this, monster · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Donotknow, guests, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 making | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 making | aux |
| 3 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 making | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 celebration | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 celebration | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 celebration | amod |
| 8 | celebration | celebration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ready | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 guests | det |
| 12 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 making | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 walk | mark |
| 15 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 came | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 garden | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 garden | det |
| 18 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walk | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 23 | Donotknow | Donotknow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 asked | cc |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saw | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sort | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 sort | punct |
| 28 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 29 sort | det |
| 29 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | ccomp |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 monster | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 monster | det |
| 32 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sort | nmod |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 this | cop |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 making | obl |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 making | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | Donotknow | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the guests | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | walk | to-infinitive | the guests not said here | the garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | see | past | King | Donotknow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer donotknow=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | King not said here | what sort of a monster ccomp | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | sort in a quote | a monster | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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