Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 35

Then, from some source unknown, he stood in front of Iván Tsarévich and said, “Sit on me, Iván Tsarévich, on the grey Wolf, and the fair Princess can go on the golden-maned steed.”

Who acts: Iván, fair Princess · What happens: stand, say, sit, go · To what, where: source, Iván, grey Wolf, maned steed · 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 (Iván, fair Princess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 stood	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 source	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 source	det
5	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obl
6	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 source	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 source	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stood	nsubj
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 front	case
11	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Iván	case
13	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 front	nmod
14	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Iván	flat
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Sit	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Sit	punct
19	Sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 Sit	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Iván	punct
23	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Sit	obl
24	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Iván	flat
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Wolf	punct
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 Wolf	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Wolf	det
28	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Wolf	amod
29	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Sit	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 go	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Princess	det
33	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Princess	amod
34	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 go	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 go	aux
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Sit	conj
37	on	on	ADP	_	42 steed	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 steed	det
39	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 maned	amod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 golden	punct
41	maned	maned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 steed	amod
42	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 go	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Iván		some source	then	in front of Iván	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Iván not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit in a quote	infinitive		Iván	the grey Wolf		on Iván	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on i=Location
4	go in a quote	can	the fair Princess		the maned steed			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on steed=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 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 35