Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 61
Then at that time he saw a crow and two nestlings flying round the body, who wished to land there and to eat the flesh of Iván Tsarévich.
Who acts: Iván, two nestlings, body · What happens: see, fly, wish, land, eat · To what, where: crow, body, flesh
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 (Iván, two nestlings, body), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 crow | det |
| 8 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nestlings | cc |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 nestlings | nummod |
| 11 | nestlings | nestling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crow | conj |
| 12 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 nestlings | acl |
| 13 | round | round | ADP | _ | 15 body | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 body | det |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flying | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wished | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 wished | nsubj |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 body | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 land | mark |
| 20 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wished | xcomp |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 land | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 eat | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 eat | mark |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 land | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flesh | det |
| 26 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eat | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Iván | case |
| 28 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 flesh | nmod |
| 29 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Iván | flat |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Iván | a crow and two nestlings | then; time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crow=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | two nestlings not said here | the body | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round body=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | the body | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | land not said to happen | to-infinitive | the body not said here | there | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | the body not said here | the flesh of Iván | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=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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