Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 35

The mare began to gallop over the valleys and over the hills, and she reared, but she could not dislodge the rider; and at last she stopped and said in a human voice: “Now, good youth, now you can mount me, you may become master of my foals.”

Who acts: mare, you · What happens: begin, gallop, rear, not dislodge, stop, say · To what, where: valleys, rider, last, human voice, mare, master · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mare, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mare	det
2	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 gallop	mark
5	gallop	gallop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 valleys	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 valleys	det
8	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gallop	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hills	cc
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 hills	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hills	det
12	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 valleys	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reared	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 reared	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 reared	nsubj
16	reared	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dislodge	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 dislodge	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dislodge	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 dislodge	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 dislodge	advmod
22	dislodge	dislodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 reared	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rider	det
24	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dislodge	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 stopped	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stopped	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stopped	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stopped	nsubj
30	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stopped	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 voice	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 voice	det
35	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 voice	amod
36	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	obl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 youth	punct
38	“	"	PUNCT	_	42 youth	punct
39	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 youth	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 youth	punct
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 youth	amod
42	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 mount	punct
44	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 mount	advmod
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 mount	nsubj
46	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 mount	aux
47	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 youth	parataxis
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 mount	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 become	punct
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 become	nsubj
51	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 become	aux
52	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 mount	conj
53	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 become	xcomp
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 foals	case
55	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 foals	nmod:poss
56	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 master	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the mare					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	gallop	to-infinitive	the mare not said here		the valleys and the hills			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over valley=Trajectory
3	rear	past	mare					vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not dislodge	could	mare	the rider				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=Theme
5	stop	past	mare		last			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
6	say speech: assert	past	mare not said here		a human voice		good youth ccomp	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner
7	mount in a quote	can	you	mare		now		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
8	become in a quote	may	you	master of my foals				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 35

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 35