Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 84
Then they changed clothes and rode on, and came to another land, where they went to the Tsar’s court, the servant-man first, and the King’s son after.
Who acts: TSARÉVICH · What happens: change, ride on, come, go · To what, where: clothes, land, court
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 changed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 changed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rode | cc |
| 6 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 rode | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 land | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 land | det |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 went | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 court | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Tsar | det |
| 20 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 court | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Tsar | case |
| 22 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 man | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 25 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 man | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 servant | punct |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 court | appos |
| 28 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 man | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 son | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 son | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 King | det |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 son | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 King | case |
| 34 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | parataxis |
| 35 | after | after | ADV | _ | 34 son | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | TSARÉVICH = tsarévich | clothes | then | the King's son parataxis | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||
| 2 | ride on | past | TSARÉVICH = tsarévich not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | another land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | go | past | TSARÉVICH = tsarévich | the Tsar's court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_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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