Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 34
Iván Tsarévich crossed the river of fire and he reached the Bába Yagá: but journeying afar, neither eating nor drinking.
Who acts: Iván, fire · What happens: cross, reach, journey, eat, drink · To what, where: river, Bába Yagá
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 (Iván, fire), 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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 river | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reached | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Yagá | det |
| 12 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Yagá | compound |
| 13 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 journeying | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 journeying | cc |
| 16 | journeying | journey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 crossed | advcl |
| 17 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 journeying | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eating | punct |
| 19 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 eating | cc:preconj |
| 20 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 journeying | conj |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 drinking | cc |
| 22 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 eating | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | Iván | the river of fire | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | fire | the Bába Yagá | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent yagá=Theme | ||||
| 3 | journey | gerund | Iván not said here | afar property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | Iván not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drink | gerund | Iván not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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