Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 28
She was just standing at her balcony, and sent her messengers to meet them, to know whence they came and what was their will.
Who acts: Tsarévna, messengers · What happens: stand, send, meet, know, come · To what, where: balcony, messengers
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévna, messengers), 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 | 4 standing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 standing | advmod |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 balcony | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 balcony | nmod:poss |
| 7 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sent | cc |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 messengers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sent | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sent | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 know | mark |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 meet | conj |
| 19 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 came | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 what | cc |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 came | conj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 will | cop |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 will | nmod:poss |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 what | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | Tsarévna | Tsarévna's balcony | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at balcony=Location | ||||
| 2 | send | past | Tsarévna not said here | Tsarévna's messengers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | Tsarévna not said here | messengers = messenger | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | Tsarévna not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | come | past | messengers = messenger | what conj; whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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