Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 59
Iván Tsarévich did what the Woodsprite had told him, took the key; then he ran into the garden, made an arrow, put the arrow on a catapult, and shot it far away.
Who acts: Iván, Woodsprite, arrow · What happens: do, tell, take, run, make, put · To what, where: Iván, key, garden, arrow, catapult · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Woodsprite, arrow), 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 told | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Woodsprite | det |
| 6 | Woodsprite | Woodsprite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 did | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 key | det |
| 13 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 ran | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ran | nsubj |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 garden | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 garden | det |
| 20 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ran | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 arrow | det |
| 24 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 arrow | acl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 arrow | det |
| 28 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 catapult | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 catapult | det |
| 31 | catapult | catapult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 shot | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 shot | cc |
| 34 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ran | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 shot | obj |
| 36 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 away | advmod |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 shot | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Iván | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | the Woodsprite | Iván | what obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic | |||
| 3 | take | past | Iván not said here | the key | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | past | Woodsprite | then | into the garden result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result | |||
| 5 | make | past | Woodsprite not said here | a arrow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset arrow=Product | ||||
| 6 | put | infinitive | a arrow not said here | the arrow | a catapult | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme on catapult=Destination | |||
| 7 | shoot | past | Woodsprite not said here | key | away property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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