Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 58
And again they flew on, and they arrived at the third sea, and the eagle threw the Tsar into the great depths, and he was immersed in the water up to his very neck.
Who acts: TSAR, eagle · What happens: fly, arrive, throw, immerse up · To what, where: third sea, Tsar, great depths, eagle, water
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 (TSAR, eagle), 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 flew | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 arrived | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 arrived | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 arrived | nsubj |
| 9 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 12 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 sea | amod |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrived | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 threw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 threw | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eagle | det |
| 17 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 threw | nsubj |
| 18 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Tsar | det |
| 20 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 threw | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 depths | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 depths | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 depths | amod |
| 24 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 threw | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 immersed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 immersed | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 immersed | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 immersed | aux:pass |
| 29 | immersed | immerse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 flew | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 water | det |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 immersed | obl |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 immersed | compound:prt |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 neck | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 neck | nmod:poss |
| 36 | very | very | ADV | _ | 37 neck | advmod |
| 37 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 immersed | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | TSAR | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | TSAR | the third sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | the eagle | the Tsar | into the great depths result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer tsar=Theme into depth=Result | |||
| 4 | immerse up | past · passive | eagle | the water | to eagle's neck | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in water=Destination |
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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