Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 40
The Tsarítsa went by a circuitous route, reached home before her husband, took off her _guslyár’s_ dress and arrayed herself like an empress.
Who acts: Tsarítsa · What happens: go, reach, take off, array · To what, where: dress, Tsarítsa
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tsarítsa | det |
| 2 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 route | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 route | det |
| 6 | circuitous | circuitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 route | amod |
| 7 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reached | punct |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 reached | advmod |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 husband | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 guslyár | nmod:poss |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 guslyár | punct |
| 19 | guslyár | guslyár | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dress | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 guslyár | case |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 dress | punct |
| 22 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 arrayed | cc |
| 24 | arrayed | array | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 arrayed | obj |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 empress | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 empress | det |
| 28 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arrayed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Tsarítsa | by a circuitous route | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by route=Location | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the Tsarítsa not said here | before Tsarítsa's husband | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | take off | past | Tsarítsa's guslyár's dress | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | |||||
| 4 | array | past | Tsarítsa | like a empress | 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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