Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 82
And the eagle was angry, leaped up from the table, laid hold on the Tsar and flew with him yet farther; and they flew on and on, and the eagle said to the Tsar, “Look, what is there behind us?”
Who acts: eagle, TSAR · What happens: be, leap up, fly, say, look · To what, where: table, 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, TSAR), 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 | _ | 5 angry | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaped | punct |
| 7 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 angry | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 leaped | compound:prt |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 table | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hold | punct |
| 13 | laid | laid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hold | amod |
| 14 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 table | appos |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 Tsar | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tsar | det |
| 17 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 hold | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flew | cc |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leaped | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 flew | obl |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 23 farther | advmod |
| 23 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 flew | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 flew | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 flew | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 flew | nsubj |
| 27 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 28 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 flew | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 on | cc |
| 30 | on | on | ADV | _ | 28 on | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 said | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 said | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 eagle | det |
| 34 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 said | nsubj |
| 35 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 flew | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 Tsar | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Tsar | det |
| 38 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 said | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Look | punct |
| 40 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 Look | punct |
| 41 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 said | ccomp |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 what | punct |
| 43 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 Look | obl |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 what | cop |
| 45 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 44 is | expl |
| 46 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 47 us | case |
| 47 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 is | obl |
| 48 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 41 Look | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the eagle | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leap up | participle | the eagle not said here | the table | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from table=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | the eagle not said here | yet | with eagle; far property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | fly | past | TSAR | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | 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 | ||||
| 6 | look in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | 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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