Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 41
Tsar Dolmát thought the next day he would take his golden-maned horse into the open fields, and as soon as ever he had angered the horse, it reared and was turned into a great grey Wolf who raced off.
Who acts: Tsar, horse, great grey Wolf · What happens: think, take, anger, rear, turn, race off · To what, where: golden maned horse, open fields, horse, great grey Wolf · 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 (Tsar, horse, great 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 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | Dolmát | Dolmát | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tsar | flat |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 horse | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 golden | punct |
| 13 | maned | maned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 horse | amod |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 fields | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fields | det |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fields | amod |
| 18 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 take | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 angered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 angered | cc |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 soon | advmod |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 angered | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 ever | case |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 soon | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 angered | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 angered | aux |
| 27 | angered | anger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 horse | det |
| 29 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 angered | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 reared | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 reared | nsubj |
| 32 | reared | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 turned | cc |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 turned | aux:pass |
| 35 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 reared | conj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 Wolf | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 Wolf | det |
| 38 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Wolf | amod |
| 39 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Wolf | amod |
| 40 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 turned | obl |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 raced | nsubj |
| 42 | raced | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 Wolf | acl:relcl |
| 43 | off | off | ADP | _ | 42 raced | compound:prt |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Tsar | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | would | Tsar | Tsar's golden maned horse | the open fields | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme into field=Destination | ||
| 3 | anger | past · perfect | Tsar | the horse | ever | soon property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus horse=Experiencer | ||
| 4 | rear | past | horse | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | turn | past · passive | horse not said here | a great grey Wolf | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into wolf=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | race off | past | a great grey Wolf | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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