Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 30
Then at last the King recognised that Donotknow was not a monster but a splendid and handsome knight, and he made him his heir.
Who acts: King, Donotknow · What happens: recognise, not be, make · To what, where: last, monster, heir, knight
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 (King, Donotknow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 recognised | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 recognised | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 recognised | nsubj |
| 6 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 monster | mark |
| 8 | Donotknow | Donotknow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 monster | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 monster | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 monster | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 monster | det |
| 12 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recognised | ccomp |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 knight | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 knight | det |
| 15 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 knight | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 handsome | cc |
| 17 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 splendid | conj |
| 18 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 monster | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 recognised | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heir | nmod:poss |
| 25 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | the King | last | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | not is a | past | Donotknow | a monster but a splendid knight | a splendid knight conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | past | Donotknow | Donotknow's heir | knight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary heir=Product |
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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