Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 63
Then Iván Tsarévich took his gun and shot the substitute wife, and lived happy ever after with Márya Tsarévna.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: take, shoot, live · To what, where: gun, substitute wife
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), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | flat |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 gun | nmod:poss |
| 6 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shot | cc |
| 8 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wife | det |
| 10 | substitute | substitute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | compound |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shot | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lived | cc |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lived | xcomp |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 lived | advmod |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 Tsarévna | case |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Tsarévna | case |
| 19 | Márya | Márya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Tsarévna | compound |
| 20 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Iván | Iván's gun | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | |||
| 2 | shoot | past | Iván not said here | the substitute wife | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | past | Iván not said here | after Márya Tsarévna; ever | happy property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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