Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 135
The elder brothers started out, and the younger brother set out on foot secretly and quietly, just as though he had never kissed the Tsarévna, and he stopped in his distant corner.
Who acts: elder brothers, younger brother, brother · What happens: start out, set out, not kiss, stop · To what, where: foot, Tsarévna, distant corner
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 (elder brothers, younger brother, brother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brothers | amod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 started | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brother | det |
| 9 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 brother | amod |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 started | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 15 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 quietly | cc |
| 17 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 15 secretly | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kissed | punct |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 kissed | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 kissed | advmod |
| 21 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 kissed | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 kissed | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 kissed | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 kissed | advmod |
| 25 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 set | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Tsarévna | det |
| 27 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 kissed | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stopped | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stopped | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 stopped | nsubj |
| 31 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 corner | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 corner | nmod:poss |
| 34 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 corner | amod |
| 35 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stopped | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start out | past | the elder brothers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | set out | participle | the younger brother | foot | secretly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | not kiss | past · perfect | brother | the Tsarévna | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsarévna=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | stop | past | brother | brother's distant corner | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=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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