Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 113
And the Tsarévich looked round, and he saw a path, went on it, trusting God might lead him aright.
Who acts: Tsarévich, God · What happens: look round, see, go, trust, lead · To what, where: path, Tsarévich
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévich, God), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarévich | det |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 path | det |
| 11 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 trusting | punct |
| 17 | trusting | trust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 went | advcl |
| 18 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lead | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 lead | aux |
| 20 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 trusting | ccomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lead | obj |
| 22 | aright | aright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lead | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | past | the Tsarévich | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Tsarévich | a path | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer path=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Tsarévich not said here | path | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on it=Location | ||||
| 4 | trust | gerund | Tsarévich not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lead | might | God | Tsarévich | aright property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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