Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 59
Again, the third time the eagle held him by the wing and asked him, “Why, Tsar my master, why are you frightened?”
Who acts: eagle · What happens: hold, ask, frighten · To what, where: Prince, eagle, Tsar · 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), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 8 held | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Again | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eagle | det |
| 7 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | nsubj |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 held | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 wing | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wing | det |
| 12 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 held | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Why | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Why | punct |
| 18 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tsar | punct |
| 20 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 master | nmod:poss |
| 22 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Tsar | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tsar | punct |
| 24 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 frightened | advmod |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 frightened | aux:pass |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 27 frightened | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the eagle | Prince | again; time | by the wing | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme by wing=Location | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the eagle not said here | eagle | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | frighten in a quote | present · passive | Tsar | you nsubj:pass | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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