Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 58

So they sat on the flying carpet, and the younger brother shook it at the corner and they flew higher than the forest, lower than the wandering cloud, straight back to their own country.

Who acts: drums, younger brother · What happens: sit, fly, shake, wonder · To what, where: flying carpet, carpet, corner

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 (drums, younger brother), 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 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 carpet	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carpet	det
6	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 carpet	amod
7	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shook	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shook	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brother	det
11	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 brother	amod
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shook	nsubj
13	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shook	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 corner	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 corner	det
17	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shook	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flew	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 flew	nsubj
20	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
21	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 flew	xcomp
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flew	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lower	punct
26	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 flew	conj
27	than	than	ADP	_	30 cloud	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cloud	det
29	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 cloud	amod
30	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lower	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 back	punct
32	straight	straight	ADV	_	33 back	advmod
33	back	back	ADV	_	20 flew	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 country	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 country	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 country	amod
37	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 back	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	drums = drum		the flying carpet		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on carpet=Location
2	fly	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shake	past	the younger brother	carpet	the corner		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme at corner=Trajectory
4	fly	past	drums = drum			than the forest; high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wonder speech: ask	gerund					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 58