Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 9
Just then the King, with the Princesses, was standing on the town wall; and the youngest Princess saw that blood was flowing from the valiant champion’s hand, took a kerchief off her neck and bound up the wound herself; and the King summoned him as a guest.
Who acts: King, youngest Princess, blood · What happens: stand, see, flow, take, bind up, summon · To what, where: town wall, hand, kerchief, neck, wound, 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, youngest Princess, blood), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 then | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 standing | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Princesses | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Princesses | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princesses | det |
| 8 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 King | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 King | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 standing | aux |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wall | compound |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 19 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 Princess | amod |
| 20 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 standing | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 flowing | mark |
| 23 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flowing | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 flowing | aux |
| 25 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 saw | xcomp |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 hand | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 champion | det |
| 28 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 champion | amod |
| 29 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hand | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 champion | case |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flowing | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 took | punct |
| 33 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 saw | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 kerchief | det |
| 35 | kerchief | kerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 took | obj |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 neck | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 neck | nmod:poss |
| 38 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 took | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 bound | cc |
| 40 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 took | conj |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 bound | compound:prt |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 wound | det |
| 43 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bound | obj |
| 44 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 bound | obl |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 summoned | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 summoned | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 King | det |
| 48 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 summoned | nsubj |
| 49 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 saw | conj |
| 50 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 summoned | obj |
| 51 | as | as | ADP | _ | 53 guest | case |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 guest | det |
| 53 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 summoned | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | the King and the Princesses | the town wall | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | the youngest Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | flow | past · progressive | blood | the valiant champion's hand | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the youngest Princess not said here | a kerchief | third's neck | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent kerchief=Theme off neck=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | bind up | participle | the youngest Princess not said here | the wound | third obl | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | |||
| 6 | summon | past | the King | knight | as a guest | 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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