Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 82
The Tsarévich crossed the bridge, waved the cloth to the left twice, and all that was left of the bridge was a thin thread.
Who acts: Tsarévich · What happens: cross, wave, leave, be · To what, where: bridge, cloth, left, that, thin thread
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), 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 Tsarévich | det |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 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 bridge | det |
| 5 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 waved | punct |
| 7 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossed | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cloth | det |
| 9 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waved | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 left | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 left | det |
| 12 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waved | obl |
| 13 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 waved | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 left | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 left | det:predet |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 left | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 left | aux:pass |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 crossed | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 bridge | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bridge | det |
| 22 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thread | obl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 thread | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 thread | det |
| 25 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 thread | amod |
| 26 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | the Tsarévich | the bridge | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wave | past | the Tsarévich not said here | the cloth | the left | twice property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme to left=Recipient | ||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | that | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | a thin thread | of the bridge | tree rules |
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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