Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 45
And they went across thirteen countries, and they then saw a steep mountain which they ascended, and there there stood a white stone palace with high walls round and iron columns and gates where they counted forty-one columns.
Who acts: brides, steep mountain, iron columns · What happens: go, see, ascend, stand, count · To what, where: thirteen countries, steep mountain, white stone palace, one columns
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brides, steep mountain, iron columns), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | across | across | ADV | _ | 5 thirteen | advmod |
| 5 | thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 countries | nummod |
| 6 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 saw | advmod |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mountain | det |
| 13 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mountain | amod |
| 14 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 ascended | nsubj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ascended | nsubj |
| 17 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stood | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 stood | expl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 stood | advmod |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 palace | amod |
| 25 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 palace | compound |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 walls | case |
| 28 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 walls | amod |
| 29 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 palace | nmod |
| 30 | round | round | ADV | _ | 22 stood | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 counted | cc |
| 32 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 columns | compound |
| 33 | columns | column | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 counted | nsubj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 gates | cc |
| 35 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 columns | conj |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 counted | advmod |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 counted | nsubj |
| 38 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stood | conj |
| 39 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 one | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 forty | punct |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 columns | nummod |
| 42 | columns | column | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 counted | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | brides = bride | thirteen countries | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location country=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | brides = bride | a steep mountain | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mountain=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | ascend | past | a steep mountain | brides = bride nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | brides = bride not said here | a white stone palace | there; there | with high walls; round property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | count | past | iron columns and gates | one columns | brides = bride nsubj | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent column=Theme |
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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