Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 100

So he turned back, and as soon as ever he had taken the golden cage there was a clamour and a clangour in the garden as though there were ropes attached to the cage.

Who acts: IVÁN, ropes · What happens: turn back, take, be, attach · To what, where: golden cage, ropes

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (IVÁN, ropes), 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 turned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 taken	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 taken	cc
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 soon	advmod
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 taken	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 ever	case
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 soon	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 taken	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	aux
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 turned	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cage	det
15	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cage	amod
16	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taken	obj
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cage	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 clamour	det
20	clamour	clamour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 clangour	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 clangour	det
23	clangour	clangour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 clamour	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 garden	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 garden	det
26	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 clangour	nmod
27	as	as	ADV	_	30 were	advmod
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 were	mark
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 were	expl
30	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	advcl
31	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 were	nsubj
32	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 ropes	acl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 cage	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cage	det
35	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 attached	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	past	IVÁN = iván					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take	past · perfect	IVÁN = iván	the golden cage		ever	soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Theme
3	be	past	ropes		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	attach	participle		ropes not said here			to the cage	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to cage=Co-Patient

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 10, sentence 100

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 100