Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 122
Then the invited guests arrived, and they entered into the lofty palace: there were tables standing, and the table-cloths were of silk, and the chairs painted with many colours.
Who acts: invited guests, companions, tables, table cloths · What happens: invite, arrive, enter, be, stand, paint · To what, where: lofty palace, chairs
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 (invited guests, companions, tables, table cloths), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guests | det |
| 3 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 guests | amod |
| 4 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 entered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 entered | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 12 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 palace | amod |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 were | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 were | expl |
| 16 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 17 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 were | nsubj |
| 18 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 tables | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 silk | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 silk | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cloths | det |
| 22 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cloths | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 table | punct |
| 24 | cloths | cloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 silk | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 silk | cop |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 silk | case |
| 27 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 chairs | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 chairs | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 chairs | det |
| 31 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 silk | conj |
| 32 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 chairs | acl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 colours | case |
| 34 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 colours | amod |
| 35 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 painted | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | participle | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the invited guests | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | companions = companion | the lofty palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | be | past | tables | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | tables not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | the table cloths | of silk and the chairs; the chairs conj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | paint | participle | the chairs not said here | with many colours | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with colour=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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