Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 19
When he flew out on business, he used to pile logs of wood in front of the den to prevent the Tsarévna escaping.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: fly out, use, pile, prevent, escape · To what, where: business, logs, front, Tsarévna
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon), 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 flew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 used | advcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 flew | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 business | case |
| 6 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 used | nsubj |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pile | mark |
| 11 | pile | pile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 used | xcomp |
| 12 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pile | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 logs | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 front | case |
| 16 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pile | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 den | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 den | det |
| 19 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 front | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 prevent | mark |
| 21 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pile | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Tsarévna | det |
| 23 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 prevent | obj |
| 24 | escaping | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 prevent | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly out | past | dragon | business | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on business=Location | ||||
| 2 | use | past | dragon | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | pile | to-infinitive | dragon not said here | logs of wood | front of the den | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent log=Theme in front=Destination | |||
| 4 | prevent | to-infinitive | dragon not said here | the Tsarévna | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | escape | gerund | dragon not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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