Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 86
Then Iváshko laid hold of the maiden from the silver realm, and she was drawn up, and the ladder let down again.
Who acts: Iváshko, ladder · What happens: lay, draw up, let down, hold · To what, where: hold, tale, maiden
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 (Iváshko, ladder), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 laid | advmod |
| 2 | Iváshko | Iváshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 maiden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 realm | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 realm | det |
| 10 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 realm | compound |
| 11 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 maiden | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drawn | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drawn | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drawn | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 drawn | aux:pass |
| 16 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 laid | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 drawn | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 let | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ladder | det |
| 21 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 let | nsubj |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 let | compound:prt |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 let | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | Iváshko | hold of the maiden from the silver realm | then | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | |||
| 2 | draw up | past · passive | tale | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | let down | infinitive | the ladder | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hold | the maiden from the silver realm | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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