Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 65
On the first night Dmítri Tsarévich went into the garden and sat under the apple-tree from which the Bird of Light used to steal the apples; but he went to sleep, and he never heard when the Bird of Light flew up and again plucked off many apples.
Who acts: Dmítri, LIGHT, Bird · What happens: go, sit, use, steal, sleep, not hear · To what, where: garden, apple tree, Bird, apples, many 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 (Dmítri, LIGHT, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 5 | Dmítri | Dmítri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 6 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Dmítri | flat |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sat | cc |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 15 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 apple | punct |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 Bird | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Bird | det |
| 21 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Light | case |
| 23 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Bird | nmod |
| 24 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Bird | acl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 steal | mark |
| 26 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 used | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 apples | det |
| 28 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 steal | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 sleep | mark |
| 34 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 went | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 heard | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 heard | cc |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 heard | nsubj |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 39 heard | advmod |
| 39 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 went | conj |
| 40 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 45 flew | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Bird | det |
| 42 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 flew | nsubj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Light | case |
| 44 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Bird | nmod |
| 45 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 heard | ccomp |
| 46 | up | up | ADP | _ | 45 flew | compound:prt |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 plucked | cc |
| 48 | again | again | ADV | _ | 49 plucked | advmod |
| 49 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 flew | conj |
| 50 | off | off | ADP | _ | 49 plucked | compound:prt |
| 51 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 apples | amod |
| 52 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 plucked | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Dmítri | the garden | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sit | past | Dmítri not said here | the apple tree the Bird from the apple tree the Bird from the apple tree of Light of Light | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | use | participle | the Bird from the apple tree the Bird from the apple tree the Bird of Light of Light not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | steal | to-infinitive | the apples | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location apple=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go | past | LIGHT | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | sleep | to-infinitive | LIGHT not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not hear | past | LIGHT | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | fly up | past | the Bird of Light | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | pluck off | participle | the Bird of Light not said here | many apples | again | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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