Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 109
But Iván Tsarévich and Vasilísa the Wise were leaping far off on their swift steeds.
Who acts: Iván Wise · What happens: leap
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván Wise), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 leaping | cc |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Wise | compound |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | flat |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Vasilísa | cc |
| 5 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wise | det |
| 7 | Wise | Wise | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 leaping | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 leaping | aux |
| 9 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 off | advmod |
| 11 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 leaping | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 steeds | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 steeds | nmod:poss |
| 14 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 steeds | compound |
| 15 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 off | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 leaping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past · progressive | the Iván Wise | off property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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