Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 18

Iván Tsarévich sat down and began to finger the strings when a mouselet crept out of the corner and spoke with a human voice: “Run away, Tsarévich, as fast as you can.

Who acts: Iván, mouselet · What happens: sit down, begin, creep out, speak, run away · To what, where: strings, corner · Speech: someone speaks here

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, mouselet), 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	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
2	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Iván	flat
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 began	cc
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 finger	case
8	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 strings	det
10	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 began	obj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 crept	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mouselet	det
13	mouselet	mouselet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crept	nsubj
14	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 corner	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 corner	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 corner	det
18	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crept	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 spoke	cc
20	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 voice	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 voice	det
23	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 voice	amod
24	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spoke	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 Run	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 Run	punct
27	Run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	conj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 Run	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Tsarévich	punct
30	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Run	vocative
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fast	punct
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 fast	advmod
33	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 Run	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 can	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 can	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 fast	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Iván			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	Iván not said here	the strings	to finger	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Eventuality
3	creep out	past	a mouselet	the corner		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location corner=Theme
4	speak speech: other	past	Iván not said here		with a human voice	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with voice=Co-Agent
5	run away in a quote	infinitive	Iván not said here		Tsarévich vocative; away, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 18