Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 112
“This is the chase, that is the steeds,” said Vasilísa the Wise; and she turned herself into a church, and Iván Tsarévich into an elderly pope and the horses into trees.
Who acts: This, chase, steeds, Vasilísa · What happens: be, say, turn · To what, where: chase, steeds, Vasilísa, church · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, chase, steeds, Vasilísa), 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 | _ | 10 steeds | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 chase | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chase | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chase | det |
| 5 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 steeds | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chase | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 chase | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 steeds | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 steeds | det |
| 10 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 steeds | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 steeds | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Wise | nsubj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Wise | det |
| 16 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 turned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 turned | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 turned | nsubj |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 turned | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 church | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 church | det |
| 24 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Tsarévich | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Tsarévich | cc |
| 27 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Tsarévich | compound |
| 28 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | obl |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 pope | case |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 pope | det |
| 31 | elderly | elderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 pope | amod |
| 32 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Tsarévich | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 horses | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 horses | det |
| 35 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 Tsarévich | conj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 trees | case |
| 37 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 turned | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | the chase | that nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the chase | the steeds | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the steeds | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | turn | past | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | a church | into trees; Iván Tsarévich into a elderly pope and the horses obl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme into church=Source into tree=Trajectory |
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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