Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 55
So the dragon and Iváshko went up to the stone, and the dragon commanded him to lift the stone up, and Iváshko thrust the stone, and it flew up from its bed like a feather, as though it were not there, and revealed an aperture in the earth, with a rope ladder.
Who acts: dragon, stone · What happens: go up, command, lift up, fly up, not be, reveal · To what, where: Iváshko thrust, Iváshko, stone, bed, aperture, earth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, stone), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Iváshko | cc |
| 5 | Iváshko | Iváshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dragon | conj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 went | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 stone | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stone | det |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 commanded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 commanded | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dragon | det |
| 14 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 commanded | nsubj |
| 15 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 commanded | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 lift | mark |
| 18 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 commanded | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stone | det |
| 20 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lift | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 lift | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thrust | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 thrust | cc |
| 24 | Iváshko | Iváshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 thrust | compound |
| 25 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 stone | det |
| 27 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 flew | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 flew | cc |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 flew | nsubj |
| 31 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 flew | compound:prt |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 bed | case |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bed | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flew | obl |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 38 feather | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 feather | det |
| 38 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flew | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 there | punct |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 45 there | advmod |
| 41 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 45 there | mark |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 there | nsubj |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 there | cop |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 there | advmod |
| 45 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 flew | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 revealed | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 revealed | cc |
| 48 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 49 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 aperture | det |
| 50 | aperture | aperture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 revealed | obj |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 earth | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 earth | det |
| 53 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 revealed | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 ladder | punct |
| 55 | with | with | ADP | _ | 58 ladder | case |
| 56 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 ladder | det |
| 57 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 ladder | compound |
| 58 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 revealed | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the dragon and Iváshko | Iváshko thrust | to the stone; the stone obl | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | command | past | the dragon | Iváshko | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lift up | to-infinitive | the dragon not said here | the stone | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly up | past | stone | stone's bed | like a feather | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bed=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | not is | past | stone | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | reveal | past | the dragon and Iváshko not said here | a aperture | the earth | with a rope ladder | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aperture=Topic |
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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