Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 110
“Now, Iván Tsarévich, put your head to the grey earth and listen whether there is no hunt from the Sea Tsar.”
Who acts: Iván, hunt · What happens: put, listen, be · To what, where: head
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, hunt), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 put | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 put | nsubj |
| 5 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Iván | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Iván | punct |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 earth | det |
| 12 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 earth | amod |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 listen | cc |
| 15 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 put | conj |
| 16 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 18 is | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 listen | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 hunt | det |
| 20 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 Tsar | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Tsar | det |
| 23 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Tsar | compound |
| 24 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hunt | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | infinitive | Iván | your head | now | to the grey earth | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal | ||
| 2 | listen in a quote | infinitive | Iván not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | no hunt from the Sea Tsar | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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