Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 43
And the eagle tried his wings, but no, he could not fly; and he asked him, “Now, Tsar my master, you have fed me for two years, even as you said; now feed me one year more.
Who acts: eagle, VASILÍSA · What happens: try, not fly, ask, feed, say · To what, where: wings, VASILÍSA, Tsar, more, eagle · Speech: someone speaks here
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, VASILÍSA), 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 tried | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fly | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 fly | cc |
| 9 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 fly | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 no | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fly | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fly | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 fly | advmod |
| 14 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asked | nsubj |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asked | iobj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fed | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 fed | punct |
| 22 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 fed | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Now | punct |
| 24 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 master | nmod:poss |
| 26 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Tsar | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fed | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 fed | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 fed | aux |
| 30 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 asked | parataxis |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 fed | obj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 years | case |
| 33 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 years | nummod |
| 34 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 said | punct |
| 36 | even | even | ADV | _ | 39 said | advmod |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 said | mark |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 said | nsubj |
| 39 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 asked | parataxis |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 feed | punct |
| 41 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 feed | advmod |
| 42 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | conj |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 feed | obj |
| 44 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 year | nummod |
| 45 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 feed | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 feed | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the eagle | eagle's wings | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not fly | could | eagle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | eagle | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | feed in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Tsar | now; year | you nsubj; me obj | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | feed in a quote | infinitive | the eagle not said here | more | eagle | now; year | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient more=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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