Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 5
Then he got up, flew like a youth, struck off the knight’s head, seized him, and threw him over, saying, “This is how all of your heads shall fly.”
Who acts: knight, youth, This, all · What happens: get up, fly, strike off, seize, throw over, say · To what, where: head, knight · 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 (knight, youth, This, all), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 got | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 youth | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 struck | punct |
| 11 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 youth | acl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 knight | det |
| 14 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 knight | case |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 struck | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seized | punct |
| 18 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seized | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 threw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 threw | cc |
| 22 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 threw | obj |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 threw | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saying | punct |
| 26 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 got | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fly | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 fly | punct |
| 29 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 how | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 how | cop |
| 31 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 fly | advmod |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 fly | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 heads | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 heads | nmod:poss |
| 35 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 all | nmod |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 fly | aux |
| 37 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 saying | ccomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 fly | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | knight | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | knight not said here | like a youth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | strike off | participle | a youth not said here | the knight's head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 4 | seize | past | knight not said here | knight | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | throw over | past | knight not said here | knight | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | knight not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | This | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | fly in a quote | shall | all of your heads | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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