Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 29

And she let the crystal apple roll about on the silver saucer, and on the saucer one after the other all the towns appeared in their shape; all the regiments with their banners and their arquebuses standing in warlike array, the leaders in front of the lines and the colonels in front of the platoons and the sergeants in front of their companies.

Who acts: Tsar, crystal apple, towns, arquebuses · What happens: let, roll about, appear, stand · To what, where: silver saucer, saucer, warlike array

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, crystal apple, towns, arquebuses), 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	_	3 let	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 apple	det
5	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 apple	amod
6	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roll	nsubj
7	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 let	xcomp
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 roll	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 saucer	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 saucer	det
11	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saucer	compound
12	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roll	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 appeared	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 appeared	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 saucer	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 saucer	det
17	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 appeared	obl
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 saucer	flat
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 other	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	nmod
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 towns	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 towns	det
24	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 appeared	nsubj
25	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 shape	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shape	nmod:poss
28	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 appeared	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 regiments	punct
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 regiments	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 regiments	det
32	regiments	regiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 let	parataxis
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 banners	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 banners	nmod:poss
35	banners	banner	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 regiments	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 arquebuses	cc
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 arquebuses	nmod:poss
38	arquebuses	arquebus	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 banners	conj
39	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 arquebuses	acl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 array	case
41	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 array	amod
42	array	array	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 standing	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 leaders	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 leaders	det
45	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 regiments	appos
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 front	case
47	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 leaders	nmod
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 lines	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 lines	det
50	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 front	nmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 colonels	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 colonels	det
53	colonels	colonel	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 lines	conj
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 front	case
55	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 colonels	nmod
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 platoons	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 platoons	det
58	platoons	platoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 front	nmod
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 sergeants	cc
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 sergeants	det
61	sergeants	sergeant	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 regiments	conj
62	in	in	ADP	_	63 front	case
63	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 sergeants	nmod
64	of	of	ADP	_	66 companies	case
65	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 companies	nmod:poss
66	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 front	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	let	past	Tsar		all regiments with saucer's banners and saucer's arquebuses and the sergeants in front of saucer's companies parataxis	tree rules
2	roll about	present	the crystal apple	the silver saucer	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on saucer=Trajectory
3	appear	past	all towns	the saucer	in saucer's shape	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on saucer=Location
4	stand	gerund	saucer's arquebuses not said here	warlike array		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in array=Location

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 29

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 29