Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 41
So the Tsar was mollified, and took the eagle to himself, and he fed him one year and another year, and the eagle ate up so much, ate up all the cattle; and the Tsar had neither a sheep nor a cow left.
Who acts: eagle, Tsar · What happens: mollify, take, feed, eat up, have, leave · To what, where: Tsar, eagle, VASILÍSA, cattle, sheep, cow
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 (eagle, Tsar), 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 | _ | 5 mollified | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mollified | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mollified | aux:pass |
| 5 | mollified | mollify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mollified | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eagle | det |
| 10 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 himself | case |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fed | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fed | nsubj |
| 16 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fed | obj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 year | nummod |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fed | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 year | cc |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 year | det |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 year | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ate | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ate | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eagle | det |
| 26 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ate | nsubj |
| 27 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 ate | compound:prt |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 much | advmod |
| 30 | much | much | ADV | _ | 27 ate | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ate | punct |
| 32 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 ate | compound:prt |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 cattle | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cattle | det |
| 36 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 ate | obj |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 had | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 had | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Tsar | det |
| 40 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 had | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mollified | conj |
| 42 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 44 sheep | cc:preconj |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 sheep | det |
| 44 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 had | obj |
| 45 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 47 cow | cc |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 cow | det |
| 47 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sheep | conj |
| 48 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 cow | acl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mollified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mollify | past · passive | the Tsar | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the eagle | eagle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme to himself=Destination | ||||
| 3 | feed | past | eagle | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | year | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | eat up | past | the eagle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | eat up | past | all cattle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient | |||||
| 6 | have | past | the Tsar | a sheep nor a cow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient | ||||
| 7 | leave | participle | a cow not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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