Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 86
So they flew thither, and the mother and eldest sister were ever so glad to see them, and they received the Tsar with honour and affection.
Who acts: mother · What happens: fly, be, see, receive · To what, where: mother, Tsar
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 (mother), 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 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 glad | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 glad | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mother | det |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glad | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sister | cc |
| 10 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 sister | amod |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mother | conj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 glad | cop |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 glad | advmod |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 glad | advmod |
| 15 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flew | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 glad | xcomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 received | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 received | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 received | nsubj |
| 22 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Tsar | det |
| 24 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 received | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 honour | case |
| 26 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 received | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 affection | cc |
| 28 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 honour | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | mother | thither property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the mother and eldest sister | ever | glad property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the mother and eldest sister not said here | mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | receive | past | mother | the Tsar | with honour and affection | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme |
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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