Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 11

Then the fair maiden, the daughter of the merchant, went in the different rooms, and beheld everywhere gold and velvet; but no one was there to be seen, not a single human soul.

Who acts: fair maiden, one · What happens: go, behold, be, see · To what, where: different rooms, gold, single human soul

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 (fair maiden, one), 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	12 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maiden	det
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 maiden	amod
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 daughter	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 daughter	det
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maiden	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 merchant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 merchant	det
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 maiden	punct
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 rooms	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rooms	det
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rooms	amod
16	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 went	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beheld	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 beheld	cc
19	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 went	conj
20	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 gold	advmod
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beheld	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 velvet	cc
23	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gold	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 there	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 there	cc
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 there	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 there	cop
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 went	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	32 seen	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 seen	aux:pass
32	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 there	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 soul	punct
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 soul	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 soul	det
36	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 soul	amod
37	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 soul	amod
38	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seen	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the fair maiden and the daughter of the merchant		the different rooms	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in room=Location
2	behold	participle	the fair maiden and the daughter of the merchant not said here	gold and velvet				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus
3	is	past	no one				there property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive · passive	no one not said here	a single human soul				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 11