Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 50
When they saw the golden-maned horse and the Bird of Light in the golden cage on the grass they were delighted, and thought that they would slay their brother Iván Tsarévich.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: see, be, think, slay · To what, where: golden maned horse, golden cage, grass, brother · 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 (brothers), 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 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 thought | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horse | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 golden | punct |
| 7 | maned | maned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horse | amod |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Bird | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bird | det |
| 11 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horse | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Light | case |
| 13 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Bird | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cage | det |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cage | amod |
| 17 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 grass | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 grass | det |
| 20 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 delighted | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 delighted | cop |
| 23 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grass | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thought | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thought | cc |
| 26 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 slay | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 slay | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 slay | aux |
| 30 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 thought | ccomp |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 brother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 slay | obj |
| 33 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 brother | appos |
| 34 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Iván | flat |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | brothers = brother | the golden maned horse and the Bird of Light | the golden cage | on the grass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | is | past | brothers = brother | the grass not said here | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | slay | would | brothers = brother | brothers's brother | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
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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