Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 81
So they came down to the open courtyard, and the younger sister came and received her brother, and she seated him on an oaken stool, but she left the Tsar in the courtyard, and she released the fleet hounds on him.
Who acts: King, younger sister, sister · What happens: come down, come, receive, seat, leave, release · To what, where: open courtyard, brother, house, oaken stool, Tsar, courtyard
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 (King, younger sister, sister), 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 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 courtyard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 courtyard | det |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 courtyard | amod |
| 8 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sister | det |
| 12 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 sister | amod |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 received | cc |
| 16 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 received | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seated | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 seated | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seated | nsubj |
| 22 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seated | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 stool | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 stool | det |
| 26 | oaken | oaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stool | amod |
| 27 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seated | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 left | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 left | cc |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 left | nsubj |
| 31 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Tsar | det |
| 33 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 left | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 courtyard | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 courtyard | det |
| 36 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 left | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 released | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 released | cc |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 released | nsubj |
| 40 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 hounds | det |
| 42 | fleet | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 hounds | amod |
| 43 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 released | obj |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 released | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | King | the open courtyard | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to courtyard=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | the younger sister | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | receive | past | the younger sister not said here | sister's brother | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seat | past | sister | house | a oaken stool | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Value | |||
| 5 | leave | past | sister | the Tsar | the courtyard | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme in courtyard=Location | |||
| 6 | release | past | sister | the fleet hounds | on house | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer hound=Source |
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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