Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 17
When she came to the place where the grey Wolf sat behind the railing, suddenly the grey Wolf leapt across the grating to the garden, seized Princess Eléna the Fair, leapt back and ran away with all his might and strength.
Who acts: Fair, grey Wolf · What happens: come, sit, seize, leapt back, run away · To what, where: grey Wolf leapt, place, railing, Princess Eléna
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 (Fair, grey Wolf), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 seized | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 sat | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wolf | det |
| 9 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Wolf | amod |
| 10 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | acl:relcl |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 railing | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 railing | det |
| 14 | railing | railing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leapt | punct |
| 16 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 leapt | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 leapt | det |
| 18 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 leapt | amod |
| 19 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 leapt | compound |
| 20 | leapt | leapt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 21 | across | across | ADP | _ | 23 grating | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 grating | det |
| 23 | grating | grating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leapt | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 garden | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 garden | det |
| 26 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grating | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 seized | punct |
| 28 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Eléna | compound |
| 30 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 seized | obj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Fair | det |
| 32 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Eléna | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 leapt | punct |
| 34 | leapt | leapt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 seized | conj |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 34 leapt | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ran | cc |
| 37 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 seized | conj |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 ran | advmod |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 strength | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 strength | det:predet |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 strength | nmod:poss |
| 42 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 strength | aux |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 strength | cc |
| 44 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ran | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Fair | the grey Wolf leapt across the grating to the garden | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sit | past | the grey Wolf | the railing | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind railing=Location | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | Princess Eléna | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eléna=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leapt back | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | run away | past | with Eléna's strength; away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with strength=Material |
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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