Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 13
When the Tsarítsa received the letter she read it through and said to herself, “How can I redeem the Tsar?
Who acts: Tsarítsa · What happens: receive, read, say, redeem · To what, where: letter, Tsarítsa, Tsar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarítsa), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 received | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarítsa | det |
| 3 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 received | nsubj |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 letter | det |
| 6 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 read | nsubj |
| 8 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 letter | acl:relcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 read | obj |
| 10 | through | through | ADV | _ | 8 read | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 read | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 redeem | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 redeem | punct |
| 17 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 redeem | advmod |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 redeem | aux |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 redeem | nsubj |
| 20 | redeem | redeem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Tsar | det |
| 22 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 redeem | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the Tsarítsa | the letter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | read | past | Tsarítsa | letter | through property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Tsarítsa not said here | Tsarítsa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | redeem in a quote | can | Tsarítsa | the Tsar | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme |
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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