Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 4
All the watchmen woke up, ran into the stable, seized Iván Tsarévich with the golden-maned steed and took him to their Tsar Afrón.
Who acts: watchmen · What happens: wake up, run, seize, take · To what, where: stable, Iván, Tsar Afrón
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 (watchmen), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 watchmen | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 watchmen | det |
| 3 | watchmen | watchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 woke | nsubj |
| 4 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 woke | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 stable | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stable | det |
| 10 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seized | punct |
| 12 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | parataxis |
| 13 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 seized | obj |
| 14 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Iván | flat |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 steed | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 steed | det |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 maned | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 golden | punct |
| 19 | maned | maned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 steed | amod |
| 20 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seized | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seized | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Afrón | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 Afrón | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Afrón | compound |
| 27 | Afrón | Afrón | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | all watchmen | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | run | past | all watchmen not said here | into the stable result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into stable=Result | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | Iván | with the maned steed | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iván=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Iván | stables's Tsar Afrón | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to afrón=Destination |
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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