Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 71
Then Alyósha cut off his turbulent head, and he took the turbulent head to Prince Vladímir.
Who acts: Alyósha, ALYÓSHA · What happens: cut off, take · To what, where: turbulent head, Prince
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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cut | advmod |
| 2 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 cut | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | turbulent | turbulent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 head | amod |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 head | det |
| 13 | turbulent | turbulent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 head | amod |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Prince | case |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 17 | Vladímir | Vladímir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Prince | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past | Alyósha | ALYÓSHA's turbulent head | then | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | take | past | ALYÓSHA = alyósha | the turbulent head | Prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme to prince=Destination |
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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