Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 61
Whilst they were all running after the arrow Iván Tsarévich opened the iron tower and freed the Woodsprite.
Who acts: nurses · What happens: run, open, free · To what, where: iron tower, 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 (nurses), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 5 running | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 running | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 running | aux |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 running | advmod |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 opened | advcl |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 arrow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 arrow | det |
| 8 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 running | obl |
| 9 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 arrow | appos |
| 10 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Iván | flat |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tower | det |
| 13 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tower | compound |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 freed | cc |
| 16 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 opened | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Woodsprite | det |
| 18 | Woodsprite | Woodsprite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 freed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · progressive | nurses = nurse | after the arrow | all property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | open | past | the iron tower | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tower=Theme | |||||
| 3 | free | past | the Woodsprite | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer woodsprite=Source |
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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