Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 58
And the Tsar had an apple-tree which he especially loved, and on that apple-tree all the apples that grew were of gold.
Who acts: Tsar, first, apples · What happens: have, love, grow, be · To what, where: apple tree
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 (Tsar, first, apples), 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 had | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 6 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 apple | punct |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 loved | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loved | nsubj |
| 11 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 12 loved | advmod |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tree | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tree | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tree | cc |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 tree | det |
| 17 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tree | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 apple | punct |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 apples | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 apples | det |
| 22 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 gold | nsubj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 grew | nsubj |
| 24 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 apples | acl:relcl |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 gold | cop |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tree | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Tsar | a apple tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | first | a apple tree | especially property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | grow | past | all apples | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | all apples | of gold | 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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