Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 65
As soon as Vasilísa Vasílyevna heard that she went into the stable and saddled the grey horse with the silver mane, and galloped away to Tsar Bárkhat’s courtyard.
Who acts: Vasilísa, VASILÍSA · What happens: hear, go, saddle, gallop away · To what, where: stable, grey horse, courtyard · 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 (Vasilísa, VASILÍSA), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 heard | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 heard | mark |
| 4 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | Vasílyevna | Vasílyevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Vasilísa | flat |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 went | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | ccomp |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 stable | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stable | det |
| 12 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saddled | cc |
| 14 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 16 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 horse | amod |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saddled | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 mane | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mane | det |
| 20 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mane | amod |
| 21 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saddled | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 galloped | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 galloped | cc |
| 24 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 galloped | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 courtyard | case |
| 27 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 courtyard | nmod:poss |
| 28 | Bárkhat | Bárkhat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Tsar | flat |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Tsar | case |
| 30 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 galloped | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Vasilísa | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | saddle | past | VASILÍSA = vasilísa not said here | the grey horse | with the silver mane | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Destination with mane=Theme | |||
| 4 | gallop away | past | Vasilísa not said here | Tsar's courtyard | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to courtyard=Destination |
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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