Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 2
In a certain kingdom in a certain land once there lived a Tsar and a Tsarítsa.
What happens: live · To what, where: Tsar, certain kingdom
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 kingdom | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kingdom | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kingdom | amod |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 7 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 land | amod |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kingdom | nmod |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 there | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 lived | advmod |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Tsar | det |
| 13 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Tsarítsa | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Tsarítsa | det |
| 16 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Tsar | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a Tsar and a Tsarítsa | a certain kingdom in a certain land; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme tsar=Location |
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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