Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 83
“Behind us there is a beauteous house.”
What happens: be · To what, where: beauteous house
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 house | punct |
| 2 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 is | mark |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 is | nsubj |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 house | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 7 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 house | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a beauteous house | tree rules |
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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