Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 122
Then the King came out, kissed him, and decided to give him the fair princess to wife.
Who acts: King · What happens: come out, kiss, decide, give · To what, where: king, fair princess
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 (King), 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 | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kissed | punct |
| 7 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kissed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 decided | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 decided | cc |
| 11 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 decided | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 16 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 princess | amod |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 wife | mark |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 princess | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the King | then | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | the King not said here | king | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | decide | past | the King not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the fair princess wife | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient princess=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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