Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 90
Then the old man took the morsels of the Tsarévna’s body, bit by bit, breathed on them, and she arose alive and well.
Who acts: old man, Tsarévna · What happens: take, breathe, arise · To what, where: morsels, bit
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Tsarévna), 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 | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morsels | det |
| 7 | morsels | morsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 body | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tsarévna | det |
| 10 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Tsarévna | case |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 morsels | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bit | punct |
| 14 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 bit | case |
| 16 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bit | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 breathed | punct |
| 18 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 bit | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 breathed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 arose | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 arose | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 arose | nsubj |
| 24 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 25 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 arose | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 well | cc |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 alive | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the old man | the morsels of the Tsarévna's body | then | bit by bit obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Theme | ||
| 2 | breathe | participle | bit by bit not said here | on bits = bit | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination | ||||
| 3 | arise | past | Tsarévna | alive property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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