Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 33

So he went back to the forbidden lands of the fair princess, began beating the barrel, and an enormous army came out; infantry, cavalry and artillery, with cannon and with powder waggons.

Who acts: youth, enormous army · What happens: go back, begin, beat, come out · To what, where: barrel, infantry

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 (youth, enormous army), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 lands	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lands	det
7	forbidden	forbidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lands	amod
8	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
11	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 princess	amod
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lands	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
15	beating	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 began	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 barrel	det
17	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beating	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 army	det
21	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 army	amod
22	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 infantry	punct
26	infantry	infantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cavalry	punct
28	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 infantry	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 artillery	cc
30	artillery	artillery	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 infantry	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cannon	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 cannon	case
33	cannon	cannon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 waggons	cc
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 waggons	case
36	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 waggons	compound
37	waggons	waggon	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 cannon	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go back	past	youth		to the forbidden lands of the fair princess result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result
2	begin	past	youth not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	beat	gerund	youth not said here	the barrel		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location barrel=Theme
4	come out	past	a enormous army	infantry and cavalry and artillery	cannon and powder waggons parataxis; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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 8, sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 33