Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 57
Then the Tsar stood a quarter of an hour longer, and his legs bowed in, he fell on the ground and went to sleep.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: stand, bow in, fall, go · To what, where: quarter, legs, ground, sleep
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 quarter | det |
| 6 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hour | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hour | det |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quarter | nmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 stood | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bowed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bowed | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 legs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bowed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 bowed | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fell | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fell | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 sleep | case |
| 26 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Tsar | a quarter of a hour | then | long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer quarter=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | bow in | participle · passive | TSAR's legs | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | TSAR | the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | ||||
| 4 | go | past | TSAR not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=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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