Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 8
So Iván Tsarévich took his brush, and threw it into the open field.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: take, throw · To what, where: brush, mountain, open field
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | flat |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brush | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 threw | cc |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 threw | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 field | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 field | det |
| 13 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 field | amod |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Iván | Iván's brush | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | Iván not said here | mountain | into the open field result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into field=Result |
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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