Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 30
And the Tsarévich went to the silversmith’s and ordered him to make three chests—one of gold, one of silver, and for the third he was simply to divide a stump into two, to mortise out a trough, and to attach a lock.
Who acts: Tsarévich · What happens: go, order, make, be, mortise out, attach · To what, where: silversmith, Tsarévich, three chests, two, trough, lock
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarévich | det |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 silversmith | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 silversmith | det |
| 7 | silversmith | silversmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 silversmith | case |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ordered | cc |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ordered | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ordered | xcomp |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 chests | nummod |
| 15 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 chests | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gold | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 one | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 silver | case |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 divide | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 divide | cc |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 third | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 third | det |
| 28 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 divide | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 divide | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 divide | cop |
| 31 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 33 divide | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 divide | mark |
| 33 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | parataxis |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 stump | det |
| 35 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 divide | obj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 two | case |
| 37 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 divide | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 mortise | punct |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 mortise | mark |
| 40 | mortise | mortise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 divide | conj |
| 41 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 mortise | compound:prt |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 trough | det |
| 43 | trough | trough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 mortise | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 attach | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 attach | cc |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 attach | mark |
| 47 | attach | attach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 mortise | conj |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 lock | det |
| 49 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 attach | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Tsarévich | the silversmith | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to silversmith=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the Tsarévich not said here | Tsarévich | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Tsarévich not said here | three chests | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chest=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Tsarévich | two | for the third; a stump obj; divide, simply property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | mortise out | to-infinitive | Tsarévich not said here | a trough | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | attach | to-infinitive | Tsarévich not said here | a lock | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=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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