Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 11
So she invited him to be her guest, received him, honoured him.
Who acts: princess · What happens: invite, be, receive, honour · To what, where: boy, guest
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 (princess), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 invited | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 invited | nsubj |
| 3 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 invited | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 guest | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 guest | cop |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 guest | nmod:poss |
| 8 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invited | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 received | punct |
| 10 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 invited | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 received | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 honoured | punct |
| 13 | honoured | honour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 invited | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 honoured | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | princess | boy | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | princess not said here | princess's guest | princess nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | receive | past | princess not said here | boy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | honour | past | princess not said here | boy | 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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