Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 100
So Alyósha Popóvich, the Mocker of Women, went to the window jamb, and called the Swan-bird, the fair maiden, to dine with the Prince.
Who acts: Alyósha · What happens: go, call, dine · To what, where: window jamb, Swan bird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alyósha), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 2 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 3 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Alyósha | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mocker | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mocker | det |
| 6 | Mocker | Mocker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Alyósha | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Women | case |
| 8 | Women | Women | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mocker | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alyósha | punct |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 jamb | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 jamb | det |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jamb | compound |
| 14 | jamb | jamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 called | cc |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bird | det |
| 19 | Swan | Swan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 bird | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Swan | punct |
| 21 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 maiden | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 maiden | det |
| 24 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 maiden | amod |
| 25 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bird | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dine | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 dine | mark |
| 28 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 called | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 Prince | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Prince | det |
| 31 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 dine | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Alyósha and the Mocker of Women | the window jamb | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jamb=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | call | past | the Swan bird and the fair maiden | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | dine | to-infinitive | with the Prince | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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