Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 85
The Tsarévna with her husband received her guests with honour, and they began to celebrate banquets and to be joyous.
Who acts: Tsarévna, guests · What happens: receive, begin, celebrate, be · To what, where: guests, banquets
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 (Tsarévna, guests), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tsarévna | det |
| 2 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 received | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 husband | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 husband | nmod:poss |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tsarévna | nmod |
| 6 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 guests | nmod:poss |
| 8 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 received | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 honour | case |
| 10 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 received | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 celebrate | mark |
| 16 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | banquets | banquet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 celebrate | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 joyous | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 joyous | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 joyous | cop |
| 21 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 celebrate | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the Tsarévna with Tsarévna's husband | Tsarévna's guests | with honour | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | guests = guest | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | celebrate | to-infinitive | guests = guest not said here | banquets | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banquet=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | guests = guest not said here | joyous property | 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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