Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 71

And on the third night Iván Tsarévich went into the garden to watch, and sat under the same apple-tree; and he waited one hour, a second hour, and a third hour; and then the whole garden lit up as though it shone with many fires, and the Bird of Light flew in and sat on the apple-tree and began to pluck the apples.

Who acts: Iván, IVÁN, whole garden, garden, Bird · What happens: go, watch, sit, wait, lit up, shine · To what, where: garden, same apple tree, apple tree, 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 (Iván, IVÁN, whole garden, garden), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 night	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
6	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
7	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Iván	flat
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 garden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 watch	mark
13	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	parataxis
17	under	under	ADP	_	22 tree	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tree	amod
20	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 apple	punct
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 waited	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 waited	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 waited	nsubj
26	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sat	conj
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 hour	nummod
28	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 waited	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hour	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hour	det
31	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 hour	amod
32	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 waited	obl:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hour	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hour	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 hour	det
36	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	37 hour	amod
37	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 waited	conj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 lit	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 lit	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 lit	advmod
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 garden	det
42	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 garden	amod
43	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lit	nsubj
44	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 went	parataxis
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 lit	compound:prt
46	as	as	ADV	_	49 shone	advmod
47	though	though	SCONJ	_	49 shone	mark
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 shone	nsubj
49	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 lit	parataxis
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 fires	case
51	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 fires	amod
52	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 shone	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 flew	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 flew	cc
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Bird	det
56	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 flew	nsubj
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 Light	case
58	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 Bird	nmod
59	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 shone	parataxis
60	in	in	ADV	_	59 flew	advmod
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 sat	cc
62	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 flew	conj
63	on	on	ADP	_	67 tree	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 tree	det
65	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 tree	compound
66	-	-	PUNCT	_	65 apple	punct
67	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 sat	obl
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 began	cc
69	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 flew	conj
70	to	to	PART	_	71 pluck	mark
71	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 began	xcomp
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 apples	det
73	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 pluck	obj
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Iván		the garden	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location
2	watch	to-infinitive	Iván not said here					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past			the same apple tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
4	wait	past	IVÁN = iván			hour		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lit up	participle	the whole garden			then		tree rules
6	shine	past	garden				with many fires	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fire=Theme
7	fly in	past	the Bird of Light					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sit	past	the Bird of Light not said here		the apple tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location
9	begin	past	the Bird of Light not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	pluck	to-infinitive	the Bird of Light not said here	the apples				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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 71