Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 108

Every morning he drove them into the open field, and every evening drove them back into the royal courtyard; and the Tsarévna sat on the balcony and saw that none of the cows was missing.

Who acts: Tsarévich, Tsarévna, none · What happens: drive, drive back, sit, see, be · To what, where: cows, open field, royal courtyard, balcony · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévich, Tsarévna, none), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drove	nsubj
4	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drove	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 field	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 field	amod
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drove	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drove	cc
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 evening	det
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drove	obl:unmarked
14	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drove	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drove	obj
16	back	back	ADV	_	14 drove	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 courtyard	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 courtyard	det
19	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 courtyard	amod
20	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drove	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Tsarévna	det
24	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 sat	nsubj
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drove	parataxis
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 balcony	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 balcony	det
28	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 saw	cc
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sat	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 missing	mark
32	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	37 missing	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 cows	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cows	det
35	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 none	nmod
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 missing	cop
37	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 saw	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	Tsarévich	cows = cow	the open field	morning		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into field=Trajectory
2	drive back	past	Tsarévich not said here	cows = cow	the royal courtyard	evening		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into courtyard=Trajectory
3	sit	past	the Tsarévna		the balcony			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on balcony=Location
4	see	past	the Tsarévna not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	none of the cows				missing property	tree rules

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 108