Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 61
It flew into the garden every night and sat on the apple-tree beloved of Tsar Výslav, and used to pluck down the golden apples and fly away.
Who acts: BIRD · What happens: fly, sit, belov, use, pluck down, fly away · To what, where: garden, apple tree, golden apples
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 (BIRD), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obl |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 12 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 apple | punct |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 15 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 tree | acl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Tsar | case |
| 17 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 beloved | obl:agent |
| 18 | Výslav | Výslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tsar | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 used | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 used | cc |
| 21 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flew | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 pluck | mark |
| 23 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 used | xcomp |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 pluck | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 apples | det |
| 26 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 apples | amod |
| 27 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pluck | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fly | cc |
| 29 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 pluck | conj |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 fly | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | BIRD | night | into the garden result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result | |||
| 2 | sit | past | BIRD not said here | the apple tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | belov | participle | the apple tree not said here | Tsar obl:agent | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | use | past | BIRD not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | pluck down | to-infinitive | BIRD not said here | the golden apples | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient | ||||
| 6 | fly away | infinitive | BIRD not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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