Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 137
The King then saw how matters stood; was overjoyed; took them to live with him for ever.
Who acts: King, matters · What happens: see, stand, overjoy, take, live · To what, where: matters · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, matters), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 stood | advmod |
| 6 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 overjoyed | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 10 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stood | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 took | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 live | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 ever | case |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 live | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | matters | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | overjoy | past · passive | matters not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | past | the King not said here | matters = matter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | the King not said here | with King | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=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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