Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 42

When it came up with Iván Tsarévich it said, “Sit on me, on the grey Wolf, and Princess Eléna the Fair she can ride on the golden-maned horse.”

Who acts: horse, Fair · What happens: come up, say, sit, ride · To what, where: grey Wolf, Princess Eléna · 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 (horse, Fair), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 Tsarévich	case
6	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Tsarévich	compound
7	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Sit	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Sit	punct
12	Sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Sit	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Wolf	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 Wolf	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Wolf	det
18	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Wolf	amod
19	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Sit	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ride	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ride	cc
22	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Eléna	compound
23	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 ride	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Fair	det
25	Fair	Fair	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Eléna	appos
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ride	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 ride	aux
28	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Sit	parataxis
29	on	on	ADP	_	34 horse	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 horse	det
31	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 maned	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 golden	punct
33	maned	maned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 horse	amod
34	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ride	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Sit	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	horse			with Iván Tsarévich	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	horse				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit in a quote	infinitive			the grey Wolf	on horse	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on i=Location
4	ride in a quote	can	Fair	Princess Eléna		on the maned horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 42