Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 76
Iván Tsarévich slipped off the grey Wolf and went into the town and arrived at the palace, and waited until his brother had returned with the Princess from the crowning; and they were sitting down at table.
Who acts: Iván, brother, brothers · What happens: slip off, go, arrive, wait, return, sit down · To what, where: grey Wolf, town, palace, table
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, brother, 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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 Wolf | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wolf | det |
| 6 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Wolf | amod |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 arrived | cc |
| 14 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 waited | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 waited | cc |
| 20 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | parataxis |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 returned | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 returned | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 returned | aux |
| 25 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 waited | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 Princess | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Princess | det |
| 28 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 returned | obl |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 crowning | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 crowning | det |
| 31 | crowning | crowning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Princess | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 sitting | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sitting | cc |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 sitting | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 sitting | aux |
| 36 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 slipped | conj |
| 37 | down | down | ADV | _ | 36 sitting | advmod |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 table | case |
| 39 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sitting | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip off | past | Iván | the grey Wolf | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Iván not said here | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | Iván not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wait | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | return | past · perfect | Iván's brother | with the Princess from the crowning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sit down | past · progressive | brothers = brother | table | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
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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