Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 106
So Vasíli came into the palace, told the King, and ordered the windows to be opened in front of which the Crows were flying.
Who acts: Vasíli, windows, Crows · What happens: come, tell, order, open, fly · To what, where: palace, King, windows, front · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasíli, windows, Crows), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ordered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ordered | cc |
| 13 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 windows | det |
| 15 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ordered | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 opened | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 opened | aux:pass |
| 18 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ordered | xcomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 front | case |
| 20 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opened | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 flying | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Crows | det |
| 24 | Crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flying | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 flying | aux |
| 26 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 front | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Vasíli | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Vasíli not said here | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | order | past | the windows | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent window=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | open not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the windows not said here | front | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: in front=Location | ||||
| 5 | fly | past · progressive | the Crows | of front | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of which=Trajectory |
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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