Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 35
But the dragon locked himself up in his den and would not come to view.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: lock up, not come, view · To what, where: dragon, den
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 (dragon), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 locked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | nsubj |
| 4 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 locked | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 locked | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 den | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 den | nmod:poss |
| 9 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 come | cc |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 come | advmod |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 locked | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 view | mark |
| 15 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock up | past | the dragon | dragon | dragon's den | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | not come | would | the dragon not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | view | to-infinitive | the dragon not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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