Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 54
It was marvellously decorated, was this palace.
What happens: decorate, be · To what, where: palace
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 decorated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 decorated | aux:pass |
| 3 | marvellously | marvellously | ADV | _ | 4 decorated | advmod |
| 4 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 palace | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 palace | cop |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 decorated | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 decorated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decorate | past · passive | palace | marvellously property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | this palace | tree rules |
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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