Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 55
Twelve grooms opened the twelve locks, undid twelve doors, and led the magical horse out by twelve chains.
Who acts: Twelve grooms · What happens: open, lead out · To what, where: twelve locks, magical horse
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 (Twelve grooms), 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 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 grooms | nummod |
| 2 | grooms | groom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 locks | det |
| 5 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 locks | nummod |
| 6 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opened | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 doors | punct |
| 8 | undid | undid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 doors | amod |
| 9 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 doors | nummod |
| 10 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 locks | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 led | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 led | cc |
| 13 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 15 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 horse | amod |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 led | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 led | compound:prt |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 chains | case |
| 19 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 chains | nummod |
| 20 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 led | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Twelve grooms | the twelve locks and undid twelve doors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead out | past | Twelve grooms not said here | the magical horse | by twelve chains | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme by chain=Destination |
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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