Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 52
Once upon a time there was a very inquisitive King who spent all his time eavesdropping at the window.
Who acts: inquisitive King · What happens: be, spend, eavesdrop
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 (inquisitive King), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 inquisitive | advmod |
| 9 | inquisitive | inquisitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 King | amod |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spent | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 spent | nsubj |
| 12 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 was | ccomp |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 time | det:predet |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 time | nmod:poss |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spent | obj |
| 16 | eavesdropping | eavesdrop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 spent | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 window | det |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eavesdropping | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spend | past | a inquisitive King | time | who nsubj | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | eavesdrop | gerund | a inquisitive King not said here | at the window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at 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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