Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 16
Then from somewhere or other all sorts of dishes and drinks appeared on the table, enough to please a Tsar, and a Tsar would not have been ashamed of it.
Who acts: sorts · What happens: appear, please, not asham, sort · To what, where: table, Tsar, dishes
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorts), 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 | 3 somewhere | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 somewhere | case |
| 3 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 appeared | advmod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 other | cc |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 somewhere | conj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 sorts | det |
| 7 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 dishes | case |
| 9 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sorts | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drinks | cc |
| 11 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dishes | conj |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 table | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 table | det |
| 15 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 enough | punct |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 appeared | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 please | mark |
| 19 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 enough | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Tsar | det |
| 21 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 please | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ashamed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ashamed | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Tsar | det |
| 25 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ashamed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 ashamed | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 ashamed | advmod |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 ashamed | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 ashamed | aux:pass |
| 30 | ashamed | asham | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 appeared | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ashamed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | all sorts of dishes and drinks | the table | then | somewhere property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on table=Location | ||
| 2 | please | to-infinitive | all sorts of dishes and drinks not said here | a Tsar | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tsar=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not asham | would · perfect · passive | a Tsar | of table | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sort | dishes and drinks | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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