Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 134

The soldier fired at the bird, but could not kill it; and could only wing it on the right wing, and three feathers fell out of the wing, but the bird took to flight.

Who acts: soldier, garden, three feathers, bird · What happens: fire, not kill, wing, fall, take · To what, where: soldier, garden, right wing, wing

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 (soldier, garden, three feathers, bird), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kill	nsubj
3	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 soldier	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fired	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kill	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 kill	cc
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 kill	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 kill	advmod
11	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kill	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 wing	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wing	cc
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 wing	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 wing	advmod
17	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kill	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wing	nsubj
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 wing	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wing	det
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wing	amod
22	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wing	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fell	cc
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 feathers	nummod
26	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kill	parataxis
28	out	out	ADP	_	31 wing	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 wing	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wing	det
31	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 took	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 took	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bird	det
35	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 took	nsubj
36	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fell	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 flight	case
38	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 took	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fire	participle		the soldier not said here		at the bird	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at bird=Destination
2	not kill	could	the soldier	garden			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	wing	could	garden		the right wing		tree rules
4	fall	past	three feathers		the wing		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out wing=Location
5	take	past	the bird			to flight result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to flight=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 134

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 134