Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 27
But Iván Tsarévich in the meantime had gained ground.
What happens: gain · To what, where: Iván Tsarévich
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 gained | cc |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tsarévich | compound |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 meantime | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meantime | det |
| 6 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tsarévich | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gained | aux |
| 8 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gained | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | past · perfect · passive | Iván Tsarévich in the meantime | ground obj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary ground=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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