Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 76
Once there was an evening party given at the peasant’s house.
Who acts: evening party · What happens: be, give · To what, where: evening party, house
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening party), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 party | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 party | compound |
| 6 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 party | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 peasant | det |
| 10 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 peasant | case |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a evening party | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | a evening party not said here | the peasant's house | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at house=Asset |
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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