Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 169
They took him home on their wings up to the hut and placed Iváshechko in the loft.
Who acts: geese · What happens: take up, place · To what, where: plenty, wings, Iváshechko, loft
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (geese), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 wings | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hut | det |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 placed | cc |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 14 | Iváshechko | Iváshechko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 loft | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 loft | det |
| 17 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | geese = goose | plenty | geese's wings | to the hut; home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on wing=Destination | ||
| 2 | place | past | geese = goose not said here | Iváshechko | the loft | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent iváshechko=Theme in loft=Destination |
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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