Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 57
But Tsar Angéy went back for his horse, but he could neither find his steed nor his apparel, and he remained there naked and began to think.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: go back, find, remain, begin, think · To what, where: steed
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 (Tsar), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | Angéy | Angéy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tsar | flat |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 find | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 13 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 14 find | advmod |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 steed | nmod:poss |
| 16 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 apparel | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 apparel | nmod:poss |
| 19 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 steed | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 remained | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 remained | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 remained | nsubj |
| 23 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 remained | advmod |
| 25 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 remained | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 began | cc |
| 27 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 think | mark |
| 29 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 began | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Tsar | for Tsar's horse | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | find | could | Tsar | Tsar's steed nor Tsar's apparel | neither property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Topic | |||
| 3 | remain | past | Tsar | there | naked property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | begin | past | Tsar not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Tsar not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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