Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 22
She then laid it next to her bedstead, and the night went by, and the maiden awoke, and again there was never a soul in the palace.
Who acts: wind, night, maiden · What happens: lay, go by, awake, not be · To what, where: bed, soul, 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 (wind, night, maiden), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 laid | advmod |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | obj |
| 5 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 laid | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 bedstead | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bedstead | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bedstead | bedstead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 next | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 awoke | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 awoke | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maiden | det |
| 18 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 awoke | nsubj |
| 19 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 soul | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 soul | cc |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 was | advmod |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 was | expl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 soul | cop |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 soul | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 soul | det |
| 27 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 awoke | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 palace | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 palace | det |
| 30 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 soul | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | wind | bed | then | next property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result | ||
| 2 | go by | past | the night | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | awake | past | the maiden | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is a | past | a soul | the 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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