Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 61

So Alyósha led out his horse, saddled it with a Circassian saddle, fastened it on with twelve silken girths, not for the sake of decoration, but for the sake of strength.

Who acts: Alyósha · What happens: lead out, saddle, fasten on · To what, where: horse, spake

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 (Alyósha), 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	_	3 led	advmod
2	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 led	nsubj
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 led	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saddled	punct
8	saddled	saddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saddled	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 saddle	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 saddle	det
12	Circassian	circassian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 saddle	amod
13	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saddled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fastened	punct
15	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fastened	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	15 fastened	compound:prt
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 girths	case
19	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 girths	nummod
20	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 girths	amod
21	girths	girth	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fastened	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sake	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 sake	advmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 sake	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sake	det
26	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fastened	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 decoration	case
28	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sake	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sake	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 sake	cc
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 sake	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sake	det
33	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 strength	case
35	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sake	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lead out	past	Alyósha	ALYÓSHA's horse	for the sake of strength	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
2	saddle	past	Alyósha not said here	spake = speak	with a Circassian saddle	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with saddle=Theme
3	fasten on	past	Alyósha not said here	spake = speak	with twelve silken girths; for the sake of decoration	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with girth=Co-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 20, sentence 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 61