Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 73
So they flew and flew, and the eagle said to the Tsar, “Look, what is there behind us?”
Who acts: TSAR, eagle · What happens: fly, say, look, be · To what, where: 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 flew | cc |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eagle | det |
| 9 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Tsar | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tsar | det |
| 13 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Look | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Look | punct |
| 16 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 is | punct |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 is | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Look | conj |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 is | expl |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 is | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 Look | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | TSAR | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly | past | TSAR not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the eagle | the Tsar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to tsar=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | look in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | there | behind us; what nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind we=Location |
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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