Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 129
When they arrived home his father and mother were overjoyed to see Iván Tsarévich, for they had given him up as lost.
Who acts: horses · What happens: arrive, overjoy, see, give up, lose · To what, where: father, Iván
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 (horses), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 overjoyed | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mother | cc |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 father | conj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 10 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 overjoyed | xcomp |
| 13 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Iván | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 given | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 given | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 given | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 given | aux |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 overjoyed | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 given | iobj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 given | compound:prt |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 lost | mark |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 given | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | horses = horse | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | overjoy | past · passive | Tsar's father and mother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Iván | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer iván=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | give up | past · perfect | horses = horse | father | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source | ||||
| 5 | lose | participle | horses = horse not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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