Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 33
Then Tsar Afrón said to him: “O my fair Queen Eléna, I will do anything for you,” and he promptly bade the maids of honour, the servants, the attendants and the _boyáryni_ to go with him and the fair Princess into the open field to walk.
Who acts: Tsar, fair Eléna · What happens: say, do, bade, go, walk · To what, where: Iván, anything, maids, open field · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, fair Eléna), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | Afrón | Afrón | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tsar | flat |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 9 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 13 Eléna | discourse |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Eléna | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Eléna | amod |
| 12 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Eléna | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 do | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Eléna | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bade | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bade | nsubj |
| 25 | promptly | promptly | ADV | _ | 26 bade | advmod |
| 26 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 maids | det |
| 28 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bade | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 honour | case |
| 30 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 maids | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 servants | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 servants | det |
| 33 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 maids | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 attendants | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 attendants | det |
| 36 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 maids | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 boyáryni | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 boyáryni | det |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 boyáryni | punct |
| 40 | boyáryni | boyáryni | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 maids | conj |
| 41 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 bade | punct |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 go | mark |
| 43 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 bade | advcl |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 go | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 Princess | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Princess | det |
| 48 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 Princess | amod |
| 49 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 him | conj |
| 50 | into | into | ADP | _ | 53 field | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 field | det |
| 52 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 field | amod |
| 53 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 go | obl |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 walk | mark |
| 55 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 go | advcl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tsar | Iván | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | my fair Eléna Queen | anything | for Iván; I nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | bade | past | Tsar | the maids of honour and the servants and the attendants and the boyáryni | promptly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | Tsar not said here | the open field | with Tsar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | walk | to-infinitive | Tsar not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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