Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 88
So he gave the Tsar a ship and two coffers, one was red and the other green.
Who acts: eagle, one · What happens: give, be · To what, where: ship, 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 (eagle, one), 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 gave | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tsar | det |
| 5 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 coffers | cc |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 coffers | nummod |
| 10 | coffers | coffer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ship | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 red | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 red | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 red | cop |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 green | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 green | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 green | amod |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 red | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | eagle | a ship and two coffers | the Tsar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Recipient ship=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | one | red property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | one not said here | 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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