Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 1
But the younger brother, who had turned to the left, heard that there was a fair princess in a certain kingdom who was indescribably lovely.
Who acts: younger brother, fair princess, certain kingdom · What happens: turn, hear, be · To what, where: left · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger brother, fair princess, certain kingdom), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 heard | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | aux |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 brother | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 left | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 left | det |
| 11 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 was | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 heard | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 18 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 princess | amod |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 kingdom | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 kingdom | det |
| 22 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kingdom | amod |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 princess | nmod |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 lovely | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 lovely | cop |
| 26 | indescribably | indescribably | ADV | _ | 27 lovely | advmod |
| 27 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · perfect | the younger brother | the left | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to left=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the younger brother | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | past | a fair princess in a certain kingdom | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a certain kingdom | indescribably, lovely property | tree rules |
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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