Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 54
But Katomá could see the guile in the Tsarévna’s heart, and instantly went into the stable and ordered them to bring the horse out.
Who acts: Katomá · What happens: see, go, order, bring out · To what, where: guile, heart, stable, grooms, horse
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 (Katomá), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 see | cc |
| 2 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 guile | det |
| 6 | guile | guile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tsarévna | det |
| 9 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Tsarévna | case |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 14 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 stable | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stable | det |
| 18 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ordered | cc |
| 20 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ordered | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 bring | mark |
| 23 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ordered | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 horse | det |
| 25 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 bring | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | Katomá | the guile | the Tsarévna's heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guile=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go | past | the stable | instantly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | order | past | grooms = groom | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the horse | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
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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