Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 16
Then the Tsarévna threw the net into the deep; fished the King’s son up, took him home, and told her father the whole story.
Who acts: Tsarévna · What happens: throw, fish up, take, tell · To what, where: net, deep, son, whole story, father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévna), 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 | 4 threw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarévna | det |
| 3 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 net | det |
| 6 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 deep | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 deep | det |
| 9 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 threw | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 fished | punct |
| 11 | fished | fish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fished | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 fished | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fished | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 took | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 told | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 told | cc |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 told | iobj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 story | det |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 story | amod |
| 28 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 told | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the Tsarévna | the net | then | into the deep result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer net=Theme into deep=Result | ||
| 2 | fish up | past | the Tsarévna not said here | the King's son | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the Tsarévna not said here | son | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the Tsarévna not said here | the whole story | Dyád’ka's father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient story=Topic |
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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