Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 102

One day, as the Tsarévich was taking his drove to drink, he met the Woodsprite with the iron hands, the cast-iron head, and the body of bronze.

Who acts: Tsarévich, cook · What happens: take, drive, drink, meet · To what, where: Woodsprite

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévich, cook), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 met	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 taking	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 taking	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tsarévich	det
6	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 taking	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 taking	aux
8	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	parataxis
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 drove	nmod:poss
10	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 taking	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 drink	mark
12	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 drove	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 met	nsubj
15	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Woodsprite	det
17	Woodsprite	Woodsprite	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 met	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 hands	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hands	det
20	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hands	compound
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 met	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 head	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 head	det
24	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 iron	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 cast	punct
26	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 head	compound
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hands	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 body	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 body	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 body	det
31	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 met	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 bronze	case
33	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 body	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · progressive	the Tsarévich				vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
2	drive	past	the Tsarévich not said here			cook nmod:poss	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
3	drink	to-infinitive	the Tsarévich not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	meet	past	cook	the Woodsprite	day	with the iron hands and the iron head; the body of bronze obl	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent woodsprite=Theme with hand=Instrument

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 102