Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 87
So they took the Tsarévich as scullion, let him draw water and hew wood.
Who acts: men, Tsar · What happens: take, let, draw, hew · To what, where: Tsarévich, Tsar, water, wood
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 (men, Tsar), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tsarévich | det |
| 5 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 scullion | case |
| 7 | scullion | scullion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 draw | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hew | cc |
| 14 | hew | hew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 draw | conj |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hew | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | men = man | the Tsarévich | as scullion | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tsarévich=Theme as scullion=Attribute | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Tsar | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | draw | infinitive | Tsar not said here | water | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hew | present | Tsar not said here | wood | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient |
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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