Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 60
So the Tsar took Vasilísa, with her white hands, put her next to him, and bade the bells ring for the wedding.
Who acts: Tsar, bells · What happens: take, put, ring · To what, where: Vasilísa, artist, bade
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, bells), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hands | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 hands | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hands | amod |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | obj |
| 14 | next | next | ADV | _ | 12 put | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ring | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ring | cc |
| 19 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ring | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bells | det |
| 21 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ring | nsubj |
| 22 | ring | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | parataxis |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 wedding | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wedding | det |
| 25 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ring | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Tsar | Vasilísa | with Vasilísa's white hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument vasilísa=Destination | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the Tsar not said here | Vasilísa | artist | next property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | ||
| 3 | ring | present | the bells | bade | for the wedding | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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