Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 90
So they cut the steps down, and Iváshko fell down.
Who acts: brothers, Iváshko · What happens: cut down, fall down · To what, where: steps
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 (brothers, Iváshko), 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 | _ | 3 cut | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 steps | det |
| 5 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cut | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 cut | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 9 | Iváshko | Iváshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut down | past | brothers = brother | the steps | down property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset step=Product | |||
| 2 | fall down | past | Iváshko | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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