Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 72

Iván Tsarévich stole under it so warily, and seized it by its tail, only he could not keep hold of it; and had only one feather out of its tail.

Who acts: Iván, IVÁN · What happens: steal, seize, not keep, have, hold · To what, where: BIRD, hold, one feather, tail

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), 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	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stole	nsubj
2	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Iván	flat
3	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stole	obl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 warily	advmod
7	warily	warily	ADV	_	3 stole	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seized	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 seized	cc
10	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stole	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seized	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 tail	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tail	nmod:poss
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seized	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 keep	punct
16	only	only	ADV	_	20 keep	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 keep	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 keep	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 keep	advmod
20	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seized	advcl
21	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 keep	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hold	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stole	conj
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 one	advmod
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 feather	nummod
29	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 tail	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 tail	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 tail	nmod:poss
33	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	steal	past	Iván			under BIRD; warily property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under it=Location
2	seize	past	Iván not said here	BIRD		by BIRD's tail	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	not keep	could	IVÁN = iván	hold of BIRD			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4	have	past	Iván not said here	one feather	BIRD's tail		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
5	hold			BIRD			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 72