Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 77
Iván Tsarévich grew anxious to see his father and mother, and he wished to go back to Holy Russia.
Who acts: Iván, fly · What happens: grow, see, wish, go back · To what, where: father, Holy Russia
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, fly), 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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grew | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mother | cc |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wished | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wished | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wished | nsubj |
| 14 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wished | xcomp |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Russia | case |
| 19 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 20 Russia | compound |
| 20 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Iván | anxious property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | fly's father and mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | fly | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | fly not said here | Holy Russia | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to russia=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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