Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 92

And he went one whole day and grew very, very tired; and when he wanted to sit down and to rest, suddenly the grey Wolf came up to him and said: “I have pity for you, Iván Tsarévich, that you are tiring yourself going on foot.

Who acts: horse, grey Wolf, you · What happens: go, grow, want, sit down, rest, come up · To what, where: horse, pity, yourself, foot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (horse, grey Wolf, you), 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	_	3 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grew	cc
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	very	very	ADV	_	8 grew	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tired	punct
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 tired	advmod
12	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 wanted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wanted	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 wanted	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wanted	nsubj
17	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sit	mark
19	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wanted	xcomp
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sit	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rest	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 rest	mark
23	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sit	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
25	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Wolf	det
27	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Wolf	amod
28	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wanted	parataxis
30	up	up	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 came	conj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 have	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 have	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 have	nsubj
38	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 said	ccomp
39	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 have	obj
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 you	case
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 have	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Tsarévich	punct
43	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Tsarévich	compound
44	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 have	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 tiring	punct
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 tiring	mark
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 tiring	nsubj
48	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 tiring	aux
49	tiring	tire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 have	advcl
50	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	49 tiring	obj
51	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 tiring	advcl
52	on	on	ADP	_	53 foot	case
53	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 going	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	horse				day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	horse not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	want	past	horse						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive	horse not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rest	to-infinitive	horse not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come up	past	the grey Wolf		horse			suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
7	say speech: assert	past	the grey Wolf not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	have in a quote	present	the grey Wolf = wolf	pity				for you; Iván Tsarévich obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
9	tire in a quote	present · progressive	you	yourself					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer
10	go in a quote	gerund	you not said here			foot			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on foot=Location

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 92

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 92