Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 114
The Prince and Princess made ready to be guests, and they set out on their journey with all their noble host with them, crossed the first river, which ran with splendid beer.
Who acts: Prince, nightingales, first river · What happens: make, be, set out, cross, run, journey · To what, where: guests, journey, first river
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 (Prince, nightingales, first river), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Princess | cc |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | conj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 made | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 guests | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 guests | cop |
| 9 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ready | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 set | nsubj |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 journey | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 journey | nmod:poss |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 host | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 host | det:predet |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 host | nmod:poss |
| 21 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 host | amod |
| 22 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 journey | nmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 host | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 crossed | punct |
| 26 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 river | det |
| 28 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 river | amod |
| 29 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 crossed | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ran | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 ran | nsubj |
| 32 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 river | acl:relcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 beer | case |
| 34 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 beer | amod |
| 35 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ran | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Prince and Princess | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the Prince and Princess not said here | guests | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | nightingales = nightingale | nightingales's journey with nightingales's noble host with fruits | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cross | past | the Prince and Princess not said here | the first river | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | ||||
| 5 | run | past | the first river | with splendid beer | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with beer=Material | ||||
| 6 | journey | nightingales = nightingale | with nightingales's noble host with fruits | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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