Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 54
Then the deer became invisible, and an angel of God stood by the Tsar’s horse in the image of Tsar Angéy and spoke to the youths.
Who acts: deer, angel · What happens: become, stand, speak, image · To what, where: image, Tsar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, angel), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 became | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 deer | det |
| 3 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 angel | det |
| 9 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 God | case |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 angel | nmod |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 horse | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tsar | det |
| 15 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Tsar | case |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 image | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 image | det |
| 20 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Tsar | case |
| 22 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 image | nmod |
| 23 | Angéy | Angéy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Tsar | flat |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 spoke | cc |
| 25 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 youths | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 youths | det |
| 28 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 spoke | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the deer | then | invisible property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | stand | past | a angel of God | the image of Tsar | by the Tsar's horse | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by horse=Location | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | a angel of God not said here | to the youths | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to youth=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | image | Tsar | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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