Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 116
But the brothers saddled their horses, combed out their whiskers, and got ready on the very morrow to try their prowess in front of the eyes of Eléna the Fair.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: saddle, comb out, get, try · To what, where: horses, morrow, prowess, front
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 saddled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saddled | nsubj |
| 4 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horses | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saddled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whiskers | punct |
| 8 | combed | comb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 whiskers | amod |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 combed | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 horses | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saddled | conj |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 got | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 morrow | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 morrow | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 morrow | advmod |
| 19 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 try | mark |
| 21 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 got | advcl |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 prowess | nmod:poss |
| 23 | prowess | prowess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 try | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 front | case |
| 25 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 try | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 eyes | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 eyes | det |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 front | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Eléna | case |
| 30 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 eyes | nmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Fair | det |
| 32 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Eléna | appos |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | saddle | past | the brothers | prayers's horses and prayers's combed whiskers | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination | ||||
| 2 | comb out | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | get | past | the brothers not said here | the morrow | ready property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on morrow=Source | |||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | the brothers not said here | prayers's prowess | front of the eyes of Eléna | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prowess=Eventuality |
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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