Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 77
After the Mass, he went up to the Prince and Princess, and he gave them the Easter greeting, but carelessly took out the golden egg.
Who acts: Unfortunate · What happens: go up, give, take out · To what, where: Easter greeting, people, golden egg
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 (Unfortunate), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 Mass | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mass | det |
| 3 | Mass | Mass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mass | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 went | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Prince | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Princess | cc |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Prince | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 greeting | det |
| 19 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 greeting | compound |
| 20 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 23 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 24 took | advmod |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 took | compound:prt |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 egg | det |
| 27 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 egg | amod |
| 28 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Unfortunate | after the Mass | to the Prince and Princess | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | give | past | Unfortunate | the Easter greeting | people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient greeting=Theme | |||
| 3 | take out | past | Unfortunate not said here | the golden egg | carelessly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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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