Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 11
They were seized, bound, locked up in a dark vault at the Tsar’s pleasure.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: seize, lock up, please · To what, where: flames, dark vault
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 (Tsar), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | aux:pass |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bound | punct |
| 5 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seized | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 locked | punct |
| 7 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seized | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 locked | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 vault | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 vault | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 vault | amod |
| 12 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 locked | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 pleasure | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tsar | det |
| 15 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Tsar | case |
| 17 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vault | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | flames = flame | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lock up | participle | a dark vault at the Tsar's pleasure | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | please | the Tsar | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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