Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 92
Then they went and sent word to the Sea Tsar that the young folk had run away.
Who acts: answer · What happens: go, send, run away · To what, where: word, Sea Tsar, young folk
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 (answer), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sent | cc |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Tsar | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tsar | det |
| 9 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tsar | compound |
| 10 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 run | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 folk | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 folk | amod |
| 14 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 run | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 run | aux |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sent | advcl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 run | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | answer | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | answer not said here | word | the Sea Tsar | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to tsar=Destination | |||
| 3 | run away | past · perfect · passive | the young folk | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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