Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 56
Ólga Tsarévna was willing, and married the Eagle: the Eagle laid hold of her and took her to his own kingdom.
Who acts: Ólga, Eagle · What happens: be, marry, lay, take, hold · To what, where: Eagle, hold, Ólga, own kingdom
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 (Ólga, Eagle), 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 | Ólga | Ólga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 willing | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ólga | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 willing | cop |
| 4 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 married | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 married | cc |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 willing | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Eagle | det |
| 9 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 married | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 laid | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Eagle | det |
| 12 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 laid | nsubj |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 willing | parataxis |
| 14 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laid | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hold | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 laid | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 kingdom | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kingdom | amod |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ólga | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry | past | Ólga not said here | the Eagle | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | the Eagle | hold of Ólga | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the Eagle not said here | Ólga = ólga | Eagle's own kingdom | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to kingdom=Destination | |||
| 5 | hold | Ólga = ólga | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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