Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 15

Iván Tsarévich went as he was bidden, and the grey Wolf sat near the golden palisade, waiting until Princess Eléna the Fair should come into the garden to walk.

Who acts: Iván, grey Wolf, Fair · What happens: go, bid, sit, wait, come, walk · To what, where: Iván, golden palisade, garden

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, grey Wolf, Fair), 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 went	nsubj
2	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Iván	flat
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 bidden	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bidden	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bidden	aux:pass
7	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Wolf	det
11	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Wolf	amod
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	near	near	ADP	_	17 palisade	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 palisade	det
16	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 palisade	amod
17	palisade	palisade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 waiting	punct
19	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sat	advcl
20	until	until	ADP	_	22 Eléna	case
21	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Eléna	compound
22	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 waiting	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Fair	det
24	Fair	Fair	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 come	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 waiting	advcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 garden	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 garden	det
29	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 walk	mark
31	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 come	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	Iván				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bid	past · passive		Iván			tree rules
3	sit	past	the grey Wolf		the golden palisade		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near palisade=Location
4	wait	gerund	the grey Wolf not said here			until Princess Eléna	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	should	the Fair		the garden		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location
6	walk	to-infinitive	the Fair not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 11, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 15