Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 84
On his way he passed the palace of the Nightingale Robber, and as soon as he came up to the Robber’s palace the windows were opened and out of these windows the Nightingale Robber’s three daughters were looking.
Who acts: Nightingale, three daughters · What happens: pass, come up, open, look · To what, where: palace, way, windows
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: who acts (Nightingale, three daughters), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Robber | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Robber | det |
| 10 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Robber | compound |
| 11 | Robber | Robber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 palace | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 came | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Robber | det |
| 22 | Robber | Robber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 palace | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Robber | case |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 windows | det |
| 26 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 opened | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 opened | aux:pass |
| 28 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 palace | acl:relcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 looking | cc |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 windows | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 windows | case |
| 32 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 windows | det |
| 33 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 looking | obl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Robber | det |
| 35 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Robber | compound |
| 36 | Robber | Robber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 Robber | case |
| 38 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 daughters | nummod |
| 39 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 looking | nsubj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 looking | aux |
| 41 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 opened | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Nightingale | the palace of the Nightingale Robber | Nightingale's way | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent palace=Theme on way=Destination | |||
| 2 | come up | past | Nightingale | the Robber's palace | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | open | past · passive | the windows | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | past · progressive | the Nightingale Robber's three daughters | out this windows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out window=Theme |
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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