Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 102
Then the Prince bade a goblet of green wine be given to the doughty youth.
What happens: give · To what, where: Prince bade, doughty youth
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 given | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bade | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 goblet | det |
| 6 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wine | case |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wine | amod |
| 9 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goblet | nmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 given | aux:pass |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 youth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youth | det |
| 14 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 youth | amod |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | infinitive · passive | the Prince bade | the doughty youth | then | a goblet of green wine nsubj:pass | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to youth=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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