Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 26
So the Prince came, and when he saw what a monster was betrothed to the fair Princess he thought he would slay Donotknow, and he summoned him to mortal combat.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: come, see, betroth, think, slay, summon · To what, where: monster, fair Princess, Donotknow · 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 (Prince), 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 | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 betrothed | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 monster | det |
| 12 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 betrothed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 betrothed | aux:pass |
| 14 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Princess | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Princess | amod |
| 18 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 betrothed | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | nsubj |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 slay | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 slay | aux |
| 23 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | Donotknow | Donotknow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 slay | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 summoned | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 summoned | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 summoned | nsubj |
| 28 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 summoned | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 combat | case |
| 31 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 combat | amod |
| 32 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 summoned | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | betroth | past · passive | a monster | to the fair Princess; what obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Prince | the fair Princess not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent princess=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | slay | would | Prince | Donotknow | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donotknow=Patient | ||||
| 6 | summon | past | Prince | Donotknow | to mortal combat | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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