Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 20
Iván Tsarévich then left the room, sat on his horse, and went all the way back to the Sun. The mouselet ran up and down on the strings of the harp, and the sister never noticed that the brother had gone away.
Who acts: Iván, mouselet, sister, brother · What happens: leave, sit, go, run up, not notice, go away · To what, where: room, way, strings · 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, sister, brother), 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 | 4 left | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 left | advmod |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 horse | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 way | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Sun. | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sun. | det |
| 21 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mouselet | det |
| 23 | mouselet | mouselet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ran | nsubj |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | parataxis |
| 25 | up | up | ADV | _ | 24 ran | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 down | cc |
| 27 | down | down | ADV | _ | 25 up | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 strings | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 strings | det |
| 30 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ran | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 harp | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 harp | det |
| 33 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 strings | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 noticed | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 noticed | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 sister | det |
| 37 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 noticed | nsubj |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 39 noticed | advmod |
| 39 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 gone | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 brother | det |
| 42 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 gone | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 gone | aux |
| 44 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 noticed | ccomp |
| 45 | away | away | ADV | _ | 44 gone | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Iván | the room | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit | past | Iván not said here | on Iván's horse | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Iván not said here | all way | sunday | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | run up | past | the mouselet | the strings of the harp | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on string=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | not notice | past | the sister | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | go away | past · perfect | the brother | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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