Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 142

He used to sit on his flying horse, undo his cap, put his arms a-kimbo; and he seemed like a king, like the reigning king; and you looked on, and you would never have imagined that at one time he could ever have been poor Vanyúshka.

Who acts: man, you · What happens: use, sit, fly, undo, put, seem · To what, where: cap, arms, poor Vanyúshka

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 (man, you), 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 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sit	mark
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 horse	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horse	nmod:poss
7	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 horse	amod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 undo	punct
10	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cap	nmod:poss
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 undo	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 undo	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arms	nmod:poss
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 kimbo	det
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 a	punct
19	kimbo	kimbo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 arms	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 seemed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seemed	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seemed	nsubj
23	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	parataxis
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 king	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seemed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 king	punct
28	like	like	ADP	_	31 king	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 king	det
30	reigning	reign	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 king	amod
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seemed	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 looked	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 looked	cc
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 looked	nsubj
35	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	35 looked	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 imagined	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 imagined	cc
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 imagined	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 imagined	aux
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 imagined	advmod
42	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 imagined	aux
43	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 used	conj
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 Vanyúshka	mark
45	at	at	ADP	_	47 time	case
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 time	nummod
47	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 Vanyúshka	obl
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 Vanyúshka	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 Vanyúshka	aux
50	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	54 Vanyúshka	advmod
51	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 Vanyúshka	aux
52	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	54 Vanyúshka	cop
53	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 Vanyúshka	amod
54	Vanyúshka	Vanyúshka	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 imagined	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	man				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sit	to-infinitive	man not said here			on man's flying horse	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location
3	fly	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	undo	infinitive	man not said here	man's cap			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Patient
5	put	infinitive	man not said here	man's arms and a kimbo			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal
6	seem	past	man			like a king; like the reigning king	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	reign	gerund					tree rules
8	look on	past	you				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
9	not imagine	would · perfect	you				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
10	is a	could · perfect	man	poor Vanyúshka	ever; time		tree rules

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 142

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 142