Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 165
When the boy had taken his bride into the village, he stopped at the pope’s house.
Who acts: boy · What happens: take, stop · To what, where: boy, village, house
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 taken | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stopped | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bride | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stopped | nsubj |
| 13 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pope | det |
| 16 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 pope | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stopped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | the boy | the village | boy's bride obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme bride=Destination | |||
| 2 | stop | past | boy | the pope's house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=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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