Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 59

So they flew back, took a room with their father, and as to who they were they never told their father and mother.

Who acts: drums · What happens: fly back, take, not be · To what, where: room

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), 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 flew	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 flew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 father	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 room	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 who	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 who	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 who	mark
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 as	fixed
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	3 flew	parataxis
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 told	cop
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 told	advmod
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 who	acl:relcl
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mother	cc
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 father	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly back	past	drums = drum		who parataxis	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	drums = drum not said here	a room	with drums's father	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
3	not is	past	drums = drum		drums's father and mother obj; tell property	tree rules

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 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 59