Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 23
He was taken into the Tsar’s rooms.
What happens: take · To what, where: man, rooms
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux:pass |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 rooms | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsar | det |
| 6 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Tsar | case |
| 8 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 taken | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | man | the Tsar's rooms | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into room=Destination |
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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