Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 21
Iván Tsarévich, seated on the grey Wolf’s back with Princess Eléna the Fair, fell in love with her and she with him: and when the grey Wolf arrived at the garden of Tsar Afrón, the Tsarévich grew very sad and began to weep tears.
Who acts: Princess Eléna, grey Wolf, Tsarévich · What happens: seat, fall, arrive, grow, begin, weep · To what, where: Iván, grey Wolf, love, garden, Tsar, tears
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 (Princess Eléna, grey Wolf, Tsarévich), 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 | 9 ’s | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seated | punct |
| 4 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Iván | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Wolf | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Wolf | det |
| 7 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Wolf | amod |
| 8 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | obl |
| 9 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 ’s | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Eléna | case |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Eléna | compound |
| 13 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ’s | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fair | det |
| 15 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Eléna | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Eléna | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 love | case |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fell | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 him | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 him | nsubj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fell | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 arrived | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 arrived | cc |
| 28 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 32 arrived | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Wolf | det |
| 30 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Wolf | amod |
| 31 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 arrived | nsubj |
| 32 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ’s | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 garden | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 garden | det |
| 35 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 arrived | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Tsar | case |
| 37 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 garden | nmod |
| 38 | Afrón | Afrón | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Tsar | flat |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 grew | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Tsarévich | det |
| 41 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 grew | nsubj |
| 42 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 Tsar | acl:relcl |
| 43 | very | very | ADV | _ | 44 sad | advmod |
| 44 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 grew | xcomp |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 began | cc |
| 46 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 grew | conj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 weep | mark |
| 48 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 began | xcomp |
| 49 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 weep | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | participle | Iván not said here | the grey Wolf | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Princess Eléna not said here | love | with Fair; Iván conj | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 3 | arrive | past | the grey Wolf | the garden of Tsar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | the Tsarévich | Tsar not said here | sad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tsar=Theme | |||
| 5 | begin | past | the Tsarévich not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | weep | to-infinitive | the Tsarévich not said here | tears | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=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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