Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 1
I myself then should have liked to see the Prince and Princess; and they were just poking their heads out of the door, but, whilst it was opening, I slipped and fell down flat.
Who acts: Prince, door, I · What happens: like, see, poke, open, slip, fall down · To what, where: I, Prince, heads, door
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, door, I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 liked | obl |
| 2 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 I | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 liked | advmod |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 liked | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 liked | aux |
| 6 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 liked | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Princess | cc |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Prince | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 poking | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 poking | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 poking | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 poking | aux |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 poking | advmod |
| 18 | poking | poke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 liked | advcl |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heads | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 poking | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 door | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 door | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 poking | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 slipped | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 slipped | cc |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 but | punct |
| 28 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 31 opening | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 opening | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 opening | aux |
| 31 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 slipped | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 opening | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 slipped | nsubj |
| 34 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 liked | parataxis |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fell | cc |
| 36 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 slipped | conj |
| 37 | down | down | ADV | _ | 36 fell | advmod |
| 38 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 fell | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should · perfect | I | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Prince and Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | poke | past · progressive | Prince | Prince's heads | the door | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 4 | open | past · progressive | door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | slip | past | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | fall down | past | I not said here | down, flat property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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