Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 124
He sat on the horse, bent over sideways; and he flew like your hawk over there, straight to the palace of Eléna the Fair Tsarévna.
Who acts: tale · What happens: sit, bend, fly · To what, where: horse
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 (tale), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 horse | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bent | punct |
| 7 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 horse | acl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 sideways | case |
| 9 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 7 bent | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 flew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flew | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 flew | nsubj |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | parataxis |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 hawk | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hawk | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | obl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 there | case |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 flew | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 palace | punct |
| 20 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 23 palace | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Eléna | case |
| 25 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 palace | nmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Tsarévna | det |
| 27 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Tsarévna | compound |
| 28 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Eléna | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | tale | on the horse | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location | ||||
| 2 | bend | participle | the horse not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sideways=Location | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | tale | like your hawk; the palace of Eléna conj | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over there=Location |
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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