Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 65
And once again the Tsarévich sat on the stone and wept and wept and went to sleep, and the sun began to rest on the woods when the lioness ran up and said, “Get up, Iván Tsarévich—all the mares have been collected.”
Who acts: Tsarévich, sun, lioness · What happens: sit, weep, go, begin, rest, run up · To what, where: stone, sleep, woods, Iván Tsarévich, mares · Speech: someone speaks here
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, sun, lioness), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sat | cc |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 again | advmod |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 sat | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tsarévich | det |
| 5 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stone | det |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wept | cc |
| 11 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wept | cc |
| 13 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wept | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wept | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sleep | case |
| 17 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 began | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sun | det |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 began | nsubj |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 rest | mark |
| 24 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 woods | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 woods | det |
| 27 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 rest | obl |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 ran | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 lioness | det |
| 30 | lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ran | nsubj |
| 31 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 rest | advcl |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 ran | compound:prt |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 began | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Get | punct |
| 36 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Get | punct |
| 37 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 said | ccomp |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 Get | compound:prt |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Tsarévich | punct |
| 40 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Tsarévich | compound |
| 41 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Get | obl |
| 42 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 collected | punct |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 mares | det:predet |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 mares | det |
| 45 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 collected | aux |
| 47 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 48 collected | aux:pass |
| 48 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 Get | parataxis |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Tsarévich | the stone | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location | |||
| 2 | weep | past | the Tsarévich not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | weep | past | the Tsarévich not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | the Tsarévich not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | the sun | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | rest | to-infinitive | the sun not said here | the woods | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wood=Location | ||||
| 7 | run up | past | the lioness | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past | the sun not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | get up in a quote | infinitive | Iván Tsarévich | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 10 | collect in a quote | present · perfect · passive | all mares | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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