Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 48
Then Túgarin was wroth with Alyósha Popóvich and burst on him with his steel knife.
Who acts: Túgarin · What happens: be, burst
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 (Túgarin), 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 wroth | advmod |
| 2 | Túgarin | Túgarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wroth | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wroth | cop |
| 4 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Alyósha | case |
| 6 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wroth | obl |
| 7 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Alyósha | flat |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 burst | cc |
| 9 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wroth | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 burst | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 knife | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 knife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knife | compound |
| 15 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 burst | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wroth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Túgarin | then | with Alyósha; wroth property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | burst | past | Túgarin not said here | on Túgarin; with Túgarin's steel knife | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=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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