Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 171

The boy and the maiden came in, made due greetings, and sat behind, on a corner of the fire bank.

Who acts: boy · What happens: come in, make, sit · To what, where: due greetings, corner

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 maiden	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boy	conj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 came	parataxis
10	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 greetings	amod
11	greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
15	behind	behind	ADV	_	14 sat	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 corner	punct
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 corner	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 corner	det
19	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 bank	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bank	det
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bank	compound
23	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 corner	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in	past	the boy and the maiden				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	participle		due greetings			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset greeting=Product
3	sit	past	the boy and the maiden not said here		a corner of the fire bank	behind property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on corner=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 171

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 171