Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 57
One year further went by, and Iván Tsarévich said to his youngest sister, “Let us go and have a walk in the green garden,” and they went for a little walk.
Who acts: Iván, us, hands · What happens: go by, say, let, go, have · To what, where: youngest sister, us, walk, green garden · 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, us, hands), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 year | nummod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | further | further | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 8 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 9 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Iván | flat |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sister | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sister | nmod:poss |
| 13 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 sister | amod |
| 14 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Let | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Let | punct |
| 17 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 Let | obj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Let | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Let | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 walk | det |
| 23 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 garden | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 garden | det |
| 26 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 garden | amod |
| 27 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walk | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Let | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 walk | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 walk | det |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 walk | amod |
| 36 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | year | further property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Iván | Iván's youngest sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | infinitive | a walk | the green garden | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go | past | hands = hand | for a little walk | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for walk=Beneficiary |
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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