Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 52
And the fair Princess Eléna, seeing Iván Tsarévich dead, was sore afraid, and with bitter tears spake.
Who acts: fair Princess Eléna · What happens: see, be · To what, where: Iván
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 (fair Princess 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 afraid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Eléna | det |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Eléna | amod |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Eléna | compound |
| 5 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 afraid | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seeing | punct |
| 7 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Eléna | acl |
| 8 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seeing | obj |
| 9 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Iván | flat |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Iván | list |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Eléna | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 afraid | cop |
| 13 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 afraid | amod |
| 14 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spake | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spake | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 spake | case |
| 18 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tears | amod |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spake | compound |
| 20 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 afraid | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the fair Princess Eléna not said here | Iván | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer iván=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the fair Princess Eléna | with tears spake; afraid property | 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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