Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 31
The grey Wolf stayed one day with Tsar Afrón, and a second day and a third in the stead of fair Princess Eléna.
Who acts: grey Wolf · What happens: stay
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wolf | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wolf | amod |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Tsar | case |
| 8 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 day | nmod |
| 9 | Afrón | Afrón | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Tsar | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 day | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 day | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 third | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 third | det |
| 17 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 stead | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stead | det |
| 20 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 third | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Princess | case |
| 22 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Princess | amod |
| 23 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 stead | nmod |
| 24 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Princess | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | the grey Wolf | day | vn exist-47.1 «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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