Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 56

He seized hold of Márya Tsarévna, but she turned first into a frog, then into a lizard, and into all sorts of insects, and last of all into a spindle.

Who acts: Iván, Márya · What happens: seize, turn, hold, sort · To what, where: hold, sorts, Márya, insects

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 (Iván, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	nsubj
2	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seized	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Márya	case
5	Márya	Márya	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hold	nmod
6	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Márya	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 turned	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	nsubj
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seized	conj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 turned	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 frog	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 frog	det
14	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lizard	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 lizard	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 lizard	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lizard	det
19	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 frog	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sorts	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sorts	cc
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 sorts	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 sorts	det
24	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seized	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 insects	case
26	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sorts	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 last	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 last	cc
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 insects	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 last	nmod
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 spindle	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 spindle	det
34	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 all	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	Iván	hold of Márya	all sorts of insects		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	turn	past	Márya			into a frog and a lizard result; first property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into frog=Result
3	hold			Márya			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient
4	sort			insects			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 56