Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 97
Iván Tsarévich slipped through the stone wall into the garden, saw the Bird of Light in the golden cage, and was very pleased.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: slip, see, be · To what, where: stone wall, Bird, golden cage
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), 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 slipped | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 wall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wall | compound |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bird | det |
| 14 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Light | case |
| 16 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Bird | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cage | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cage | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cage | amod |
| 20 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pleased | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pleased | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 pleased | cop |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 pleased | advmod |
| 25 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 saw | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | past | Iván | the stone wall | into the garden | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | see | past | the Bird of Light | the golden cage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | pleased property | tree rules |
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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