Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 14
And at last, after a journey long or short, Iván Tsarévich reached the old women, and he gave each of them an apple.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: reach, give · To what, where: old women, last, each
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reached | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reached | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 journey | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 journey | det |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 last | conj |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 journey | amod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 short | cc |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 long | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 last | punct |
| 12 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Iván | flat |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 women | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 women | amod |
| 17 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 reached | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 reached | conj |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 gave | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 each | nmod |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 apple | det |
| 26 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Iván | the old women | last and a journey | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent woman=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 2 | give | past | Iván | each of women | a apple obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient apple=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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