Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 88
When the steps were let down again, Iváshko sat on them, and the brothers drew it up into the height.
Who acts: Iváshko, brothers · What happens: let down, sit, draw up · To what, where: steps, ladder, height
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, brothers), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 let | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 steps | det |
| 3 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 let | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux:pass |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sat | advcl |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 let | compound:prt |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 let | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 9 | Iváshko | Iváshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sat | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drew | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 brothers | det |
| 16 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 drew | nsubj |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sat | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drew | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 drew | compound:prt |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 height | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 height | det |
| 22 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drew | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let down | past · passive | the steps | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Iváshko | on steps = step | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location | ||||
| 3 | draw up | past | the brothers | ladder | into the height result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient into height=Result |
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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