Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 40

The Tsarévich took the golden Bird, went outside the town, sat on the golden-maned horse together with the Princess Eléna, and went back to his own country.

Who acts: Tsarévich · What happens: take, go, sit, go back · To what, where: golden Bird, town

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tsarévich	det
2	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bird	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Bird	amod
6	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
9	outside	outside	ADP	_	11 town	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 town	det
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	19 horse	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 horse	det
16	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 horse	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 golden	punct
18	maned	maned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 horse	amod
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
20	together	together	ADV	_	13 sat	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 Eléna	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Eléna	det
23	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Eléna	compound
24	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 country	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 country	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 country	amod
32	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Tsarévich	the golden Bird			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination
2	go	past	the Tsarévich not said here		the town		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme outside town=Location
3	sit	past	the Tsarévich not said here			on the golden maned horse; with the Princess Eléna; together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location
4	go back	past	the Tsarévich not said here			to Bird's own country result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result

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 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 40