Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 10
So the father took her away, set her in the palace, bade farewell, and set out home.
Who acts: father · What happens: take away, set, set out · To what, where: daughter, palace
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 set | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bade | punct |
| 14 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 palace | conj |
| 15 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 8 set | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 set | compound:prt |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 set | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | the father | daughter | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | past | the father not said here | daughter | the palace and bade | farewell property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in palace=Destination | ||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | the father not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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