Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 46
And the ministers answered the Tsar, “Your Majesty, on the very day the Tsarítsa received your letter she vanished no one knows where, and has been away all this time, and she has only just appeared in the palace.”
Who acts: ministers, Tsarítsa, one, your · What happens: answer, receive, vanish, know, be, have · To what, where: Tsar, letter, palace · 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 (ministers, Tsarítsa, one, your), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ministers | det |
| 3 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsar | det |
| 6 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Majesty | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Majesty | punct |
| 9 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Tsar | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 received | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 day | advmod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 received | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tsarítsa | det |
| 17 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 received | nsubj |
| 18 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 letter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 received | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 vanished | nsubj |
| 22 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 letter | acl:relcl |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knows | nsubj |
| 25 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 vanished | ccomp |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 knows | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 away | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 away | cc |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 away | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 away | cop |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 received | advmod |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 time | det:predet |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 time | det |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 away | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 has | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 has | cc |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 has | nsubj |
| 38 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 39 | only | only | ADV | _ | 41 appeared | advmod |
| 40 | just | just | ADV | _ | 41 appeared | advmod |
| 41 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 has | advcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 palace | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 palace | det |
| 44 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 appeared | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 has | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the ministers | the Tsar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive in a quote | past | the Tsarítsa | your letter | day | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | |||
| 3 | vanish in a quote | past | Tsarítsa | your letter not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present · perfect | time | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | Tsarítsa | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | appear in a quote | past | Tsarítsa not said here | the palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | ||||
| 8 | letter in a quote | your | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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