Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 18

He then went into the open field under the green oak where Iván Tsarévich was waiting, and said, “Iván Tsarévich, come sit on my back, on the grey Wolf swiftly.”

Who acts: Eléna, Iván · What happens: go, wait, say, come, sit · To what, where: open field, back · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Eléna, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 field	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 field	amod
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	under	under	ADP	_	11 oak	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 oak	det
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 oak	amod
11	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 waiting	advmod
13	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 waiting	nsubj
14	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Iván	flat
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 waiting	aux
16	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 oak	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Tsarévich	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 Tsarévich	punct
22	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Tsarévich	compound
23	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
25	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	conj
26	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	xcomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 back	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 back	nmod:poss
29	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sit	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Wolf	punct
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 Wolf	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Wolf	det
33	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Wolf	amod
34	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sit	obl
35	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	26 sit	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Eléna	the open field	then	under the green oak	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location
2	wait	past · progressive	Iván				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past				Iván Tsarévich ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	come in a quote	present					tree rules
5	sit in a quote	infinitive		my back		on the grey Wolf; swiftly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=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 11, sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 18