Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 95
“If you turn that keg to the right a palace appears forthwith, if you turn it to the left, it vanishes.”
Who acts: you, palace, keg · What happens: turn, appear, vanish · To what, where: keg, right, left
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 (you, palace, keg), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 vanishes | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 turn | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 vanishes | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 keg | det |
| 6 | keg | keg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 right | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 right | det |
| 9 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appears | nsubj |
| 12 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 right | acl:relcl |
| 13 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 12 appears | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turn | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 turn | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 turn | nsubj |
| 17 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 turn | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 turn | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 left | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 left | det |
| 21 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turn | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 turn | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 vanishes | nsubj |
| 24 | vanishes | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 vanishes | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 vanishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | that keg | the right | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent keg=Theme to right=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | appear in a quote | present | a palace | the right not said here | forthwith property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location right=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | keg | the left | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to left=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | vanish in a quote | present | keg | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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