Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 76
So they flew and flew on, and the eagle asked him again, “Look, Tsar my master, what is there over us, and what under us?”
Who acts: TSAR, eagle, master · What happens: fly, ask, look, be · To what, where: house, 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, master), 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 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eagle | det |
| 10 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 asked | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Look | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Look | punct |
| 16 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Tsar | punct |
| 18 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Look | obl |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 master | nmod:poss |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Look | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 there | punct |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 there | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 there | cop |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 master | conj |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 us | case |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 there | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 what | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 what | cc |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 flew | parataxis |
| 30 | under | under | ADP | _ | 31 us | case |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 what | nmod |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 what | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | TSAR | what under us parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | TSAR not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the eagle | house | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | look in a quote | infinitive | the eagle not said here | Tsar | my master obj | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme master=Attribute | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | my master | over us; there property | tree rules |
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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