Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 12
And the doughty youth fell sick, and he vomited up the liver of the hen, and the Tsarévna swallowed it.
Who acts: doughty youth, youth, Tsarévna · What happens: fall, vomit up, swallow · To what, where: liver
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doughty youth, youth, Tsarévna), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fell | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 3 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 youth | amod |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fell | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 vomited | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 vomited | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 vomited | nsubj |
| 10 | vomited | vomit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 vomited | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 liver | det |
| 13 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vomited | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hen | det |
| 16 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 liver | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 swallowed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 swallowed | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Tsarévna | det |
| 20 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 swallowed | nsubj |
| 21 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 swallowed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the doughty youth | sick property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | vomit up | past | youth | the liver of the hen | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent liver=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swallow | past | the Tsarévna | liver | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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