Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 4

The sister went to sleep, and Márya Tsarévna stood up, went to her dear dun cow, bowed down to the right foot, and ate, and drank, and went about all day long like a princess.

Who acts: sister, Márya · What happens: go, sleep, stand up, bow down, eat, drink

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, Márya), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sister	det
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stood	cc
8	Márya	Márya	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 stood	nsubj
9	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Márya	flat
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 stood	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stood	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 cow	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cow	nmod:poss
16	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cow	amod
17	dun	dun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cow	compound
18	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bowed	punct
20	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 bowed	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 foot	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 foot	det
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 foot	amod
25	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bowed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ate	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ate	cc
28	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 drank	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drank	cc
31	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ate	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
35	about	about	ADV	_	37 day	advmod
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 day	det
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl
38	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 went	advmod
39	like	like	ADP	_	41 princess	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 princess	det
41	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the sister			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive	the sister not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stand up	past	Márya			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	Márya not said here		to Márya's dear dun cow	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cow=Initial_Location
5	bow down	past	Márya not said here		to the right foot; down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to foot=Theme
6	eat	past				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	drink	past				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	go about	past	the sister not said here	day	like a princess; long property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 4

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 4