Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 125

The Sea Tsar came up to the lake and he instantly guessed who were the duck and the drake, so he struck the grey earth and turned into an eagle.

Who acts: Sea Tsar, Tsar · What happens: come up, guess, be, strike, turn · To what, where: lake, duck, grey earth · 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 (Sea Tsar, Tsar), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsar	det
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Tsar	compound
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 lake	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lake	det
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 guessed	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 guessed	nsubj
11	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	12 guessed	advmod
12	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 duck	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 duck	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 duck	det
16	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guessed	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drake	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 drake	det
19	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 duck	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 struck	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 struck	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 struck	nsubj
23	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 earth	det
25	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 earth	amod
26	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 struck	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 turned	cc
28	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 struck	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 eagle	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 eagle	det
31	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 turned	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the Sea Tsar		the lake		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
2	guess	past	Tsar			instantly property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		the duck and the drake		who nsubj; the drake conj	tree rules
4	strike	past	Tsar	the grey earth			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient
5	turn	past	Tsar not said here			into a eagle result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into eagle=Result

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 125

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 125