Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 100
Then the Tsarévich gathered together a mass of timber, set fire to it, burnt Koshchéy the Deathless on the pile and scattered the dust to the winds.
Who acts: Tsarévich, mass · What happens: gather, set, scatter · To what, where: mass, pile, fire, timber, dust
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévich, mass), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gathered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarévich | det |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gathered | nsubj |
| 4 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 gathered | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mass | det |
| 7 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gathered | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 timber | case |
| 9 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mass | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 mass | acl:relcl |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Koshchéy | punct |
| 16 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Koshchéy | amod |
| 17 | Koshchéy | Koshchéy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mass | nmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Deathless | det |
| 19 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Koshchéy | appos |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 pile | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pile | det |
| 22 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gathered | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 scattered | cc |
| 24 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathered | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dust | det |
| 26 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 scattered | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 winds | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 winds | det |
| 29 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 scattered | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | the Tsarévich | a mass of timber burnt Koshchéy | the pile | then | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Theme | |
| 2 | set | infinitive | a mass of timber burnt Koshchéy not said here | fire | timber | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result | |||
| 3 | scatter | past | the Tsarévich not said here | the dust | to the winds | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dust=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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