Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 128
It may-be long, it may-be short, at last they came into the thrice-ninth realm.
Who acts: kingdom, horses · What happens: be, come · To what, where: ninth realm
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kingdom, horses), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 long | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | aux |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 long | cop |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 short | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 short | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 short | aux |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 short | punct |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 short | cop |
| 11 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 long | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 last | punct |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 long | conj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 last | acl:relcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 realm | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 realm | det |
| 19 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ninth | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 thrice | punct |
| 21 | ninth | ninth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 realm | amod |
| 22 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | kingdom | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | may | kingdom | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | kingdom not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | come | past | horses = horse | the ninth realm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into realm=Initial_Location |
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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