Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 32
So the attendants and maids of honour took the youth through all the courtyards, through all the streets they went.
Who acts: attendants · What happens: take, go · To what, where: youth, courtyards, streets
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 (attendants), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 attendants | det |
| 3 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 took | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 maids | cc |
| 5 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attendants | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 honour | case |
| 7 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attendants | nmod |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 courtyards | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 courtyards | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 courtyards | det |
| 14 | courtyards | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 took | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 streets | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 streets | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 streets | det |
| 19 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 went | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the attendants of honour and maids | the youth | all courtyards | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | attendants = attendant | all streets | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial_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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