Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 72

He drove the mares into the field, and they at once turned tail and vanished from his eyes and ran into the blue sea and stood up to their necks in the water.

Who acts: head, tails · What happens: drive, turn, vanish, run, stand up · To what, where: mares, field, tail, eyes, blue sea, water

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 (head, tails), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mares	det
4	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drove	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 field	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drove	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turned	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 turned	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 turned	nsubj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 turned	obl
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drove	parataxis
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turned	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 vanished	cc
16	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 turned	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 eyes	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eyes	nmod:poss
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 vanished	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 turned	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 sea	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sea	det
24	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sea	amod
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ran	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stood	cc
27	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 turned	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 stood	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 necks	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 necks	nmod:poss
31	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stood	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 water	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 water	det
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	head	the mares	the field		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mare=Theme into field=Trajectory
2	turn	past	tails = tail	tail			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
3	vanish	past	tails = tail not said here		head's eyes		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial_Location
4	run	past	tails = tail not said here			into the blue sea result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sea=Result
5	stand up	past	tails = tail not said here		the water	to tails's necks	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location

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 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 72