Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 31
Then the Tsar bade the maids of honour and attendants take him up to every courtyard, through all the streets, and to show him to all manner of people.
Who acts: maids · What happens: take up, show · To what, where: Tsar bade, streets, boy
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 (maids), 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 | 4 bade | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bade | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maids | det |
| 6 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 honour | case |
| 8 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maids | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 attendants | cc |
| 10 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 honour | conj |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 take | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 courtyard | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 courtyard | det |
| 16 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 streets | punct |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 streets | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 streets | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 streets | det |
| 21 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 show | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 show | cc |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 show | mark |
| 25 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 show | iobj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 manner | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 manner | det |
| 29 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 show | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 people | case |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 manner | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | present | the maids of honour and attendants | the Tsar bade | all streets | to every courtyard; boy obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to courtyard=Destination | ||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | the maids of honour and attendants not said here | boy | to all manner of people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to manner=Recipient |
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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