Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 123
Ványa mounted the horse by one ear, dismounted it by the other, and turned into so fine a youth as no tale can tell and no pen can write.
Who acts: Ványa, tale, pen · What happens: mount, dismount, turn, tell, write · To what, where: horse, fine youth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ványa, tale, pen), 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 | Ványa | Ványa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mounted | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 ear | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 ear | nummod |
| 7 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mounted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dismounted | punct |
| 9 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mounted | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dismounted | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 other | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dismounted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turned | cc |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mounted | parataxis |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 youth | case |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 fine | advmod |
| 19 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 youth | amod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 youth | det |
| 21 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 tell | mark |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 tale | det |
| 24 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tell | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 tell | aux |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 turned | advcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 write | cc |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 pen | det |
| 29 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 write | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 write | aux |
| 31 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 tell | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Ványa | the horse | by one ear | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme by ear=Destination | |||
| 2 | dismount | past | Ványa not said here | horse | by the other | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | turn | past | a fine youth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into youth=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | can | no tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | write | can | no pen | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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