Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 149

They came to the rich man’s door, greeted him, and sat down on a bench.

Who acts: Needs · What happens: come, greet, sit down · To what, where: door, man, bench

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Needs), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	8 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 door	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 man	case
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 greeted	punct
10	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 greeted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 bench	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bench	det
18	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	Needs = need		the rich man's door	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	greet speech: greet	past	Needs = need not said here	man		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	sit down	past	Needs = need not said here		a bench	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location

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 35, sentence 149

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 149