Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 121
So they went far, and again Vasilísa the Wise said, “Iván Tsarévich, put your ear to the ground; can you hear any hunt?”
Who acts: man, Vasilísa, Iván, you · What happens: go, say, put, hear · To what, where: ear, hunt · 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 (man, Vasilísa, Iván, you), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 Vasilísa | advmod |
| 8 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wise | det |
| 10 | Wise | Wise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Vasilísa | appos |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 14 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 put | nsubj |
| 15 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Iván | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Iván | punct |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ear | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 hear | punct |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 hear | aux |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 hear | nsubj |
| 26 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | parataxis |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 hunt | det |
| 28 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hear | obj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 hear | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | far property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Vasilísa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | put in a quote | infinitive | Iván | your ear | to the ground | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ear=Goal | |||
| 4 | hear in a quote | can | you | any hunt | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hunt=Stimulus |
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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