Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 85
Prince Vladímir summoned them all to him, all to his palace to dessert: so they ate and drank and were refreshed, and they exalted themselves.
Who acts: Prince, eggs · What happens: summon, eat, drink, refresh, exalt · To what, where: eggs, Alyósha
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, eggs), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | nsubj |
| 2 | Vladímir | Vladímir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 summoned | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 summoned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 palace | punct |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 palace | det |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 palace | nmod:poss |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 dessert | case |
| 14 | dessert | dessert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 palace | nmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 ate | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 ate | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ate | nsubj |
| 18 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drank | cc |
| 20 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ate | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 refreshed | cc |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 refreshed | aux:pass |
| 23 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 drank | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 exalted | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 exalted | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 exalted | nsubj |
| 27 | exalted | exalt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ate | conj |
| 28 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 exalted | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | Prince | eggs = egg | Alyósha | to Alyósha's palace to dessert | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||
| 2 | eat | past | eggs = egg | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink | past | eggs = egg not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | refresh | past · passive | eggs = egg not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 5 | exalt | past | eggs = egg | eggs = egg | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus |
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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