Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 24
And in that forest there stood a rich palace; and when he came to the palace, a fair maiden saw him.
Who acts: Petrúsha, fair maiden · What happens: stand, come, see · To what, where: rich palace, forest, palace, Petrúsha
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 (Petrúsha, fair maiden), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stood | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 forest | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 forest | det |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stood | advmod |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 8 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 palace | amod |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 came | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saw | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 maiden | det |
| 20 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 maiden | amod |
| 21 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a rich palace | that forest; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palace=Theme in forest=Destination | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Petrúsha | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | a fair maiden | Petrúsha | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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