Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 72
She thought to herself that the horse would prance him up against the winds, and that she could already see his bones scattered in the open fields.
Who acts: Tsarévna, horse, bones · What happens: think, prance up, see, scatter · To what, where: Tsarévna, Iván, winds, bones, open fields · 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 (Tsarévna, horse, bones), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 herself | case |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 thought | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 prance | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prance | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 prance | aux |
| 9 | prance | prance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 prance | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 prance | compound:prt |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 winds | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 winds | det |
| 14 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 prance | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 see | cc |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 20 | already | already | ADV | _ | 21 see | advmod |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bones | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 see | obj |
| 24 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 see | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fields | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fields | det |
| 27 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fields | amod |
| 28 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 scattered | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | prance up | would | the horse | Iván | the winds | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme against wind=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | see | could | Tsarévna | Iván's bones | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | scatter | participle | Iván's bones not said here | the open fields | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in field=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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