Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 110
With the table-cloth Iván Tsarévich went back to his horses, which were all gathered together, turned it round and asked for any food that he liked, and he was served, and meat and drink appeared at once.
Who acts: Iván, meat · What happens: go back, gather, turn, ask, like, serve · To what, where: horses, cloth, Iván
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 (Iván, meat), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 cloth | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cloth | det |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cloth | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 table | punct |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 6 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 7 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Iván | flat |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 horses | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horses | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gathered | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gathered | aux:pass |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 gathered | advmod |
| 17 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 horses | acl:relcl |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 gathered | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turned | punct |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 turned | obj |
| 22 | round | round | ADV | _ | 20 turned | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 asked | cc |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 turned | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 food | case |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 food | det |
| 27 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 asked | obl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 liked | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 liked | nsubj |
| 30 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 asked | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 served | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 served | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 served | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 served | aux:pass |
| 35 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 went | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 appeared | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 appeared | cc |
| 38 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 appeared | nsubj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 drink | cc |
| 40 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 meat | conj |
| 41 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 once | case |
| 43 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 41 appeared | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Iván | with the table cloth; to Iván's horses result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to horse=Result | ||||
| 2 | gather | past · passive | Iván's horses | all, together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | cloth | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | for any food | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | like | past | Iván | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | serve | past · passive | Iván | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | appear | past | meat and drink | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=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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