Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 109
Iván Tsarévich had to count the cows and to stable them all, and to give the last one a kiss under its tail.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: have, count, stable, give · To what, where: cows, last one
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 (Iván), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 count | mark |
| 5 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cows | det |
| 7 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 count | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stable | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stable | mark |
| 10 | stable | stable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 count | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stable | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 give | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 count | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 kiss | det |
| 21 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 tail | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tail | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kiss | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Iván | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | count | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | the cows | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stable | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | cows = cow | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme they=Destination | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | the last one | a kiss obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient kiss=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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