Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 31
So the two youths mounted their good horses and they fared forth into the open field.
Who acts: two youths, youths · What happens: mount, fare · To what, where: good horses, open field
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two youths, youths), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youths | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 youths | nummod |
| 4 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mounted | nsubj |
| 5 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horses | amod |
| 8 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mounted | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fared | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fared | nsubj |
| 11 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mounted | conj |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 fared | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 field | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 field | det |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 field | amod |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fared | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | the two youths | youths's good horses | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fare | past | youths = youth | the open field | forth property | tree rules |
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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