Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 48
There was a feast in the palace: the front steps glittered and glowed as though with flame, like the sun enwreathed in his beams.
Who acts: feast · What happens: be, glitter, glow, enwreath, beam · To what, where: palace, front steps, sun, beams
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 (feast), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 feast | det |
| 4 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 steps | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 steps | det |
| 10 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 steps | amod |
| 11 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 palace | appos |
| 12 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 steps | acl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 glowed | cc |
| 14 | glowed | glow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 glittered | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 flame | case |
| 16 | though | though | ADV | _ | 18 flame | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 flame | case |
| 18 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glowed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sun | punct |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 sun | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sun | det |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 steps | conj |
| 23 | enwreathed | enwreath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 sun | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 beams | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 beams | nmod:poss |
| 26 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 enwreathed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a feast | the palace; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | ||||
| 2 | glitter | participle | the front steps and the sun not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | glow | participle | as flame | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | enwreath | participle | the sun not said here | feast's beams | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | beam | feast | nom beam «communication 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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