Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 77
When Eléna the Fair saw Iván Tsarévich, she jumped up at once from her chair and began to kiss his sweet lips and to cry out, “O my beloved bridegroom, Iván Tsarévich: this is he, and not that other who sits at table.”
Who acts: Eléna, Fair, this · What happens: see, jump up, begin, kiss, cry out, not be · To what, where: Iván, chair, sweet lips, beloved bridegroom, table · 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 (Eléna, Fair, this), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fair | det |
| 4 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Eléna | appos |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jumped | advcl |
| 6 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Iván | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 jumped | nsubj |
| 10 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 jumped | compound:prt |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 jumped | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 chair | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 chair | nmod:poss |
| 16 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jumped | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 kiss | mark |
| 20 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 lips | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lips | amod |
| 23 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 kiss | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cry | cc |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 cry | mark |
| 26 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 kiss | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 cry | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bridegroom | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 bridegroom | punct |
| 30 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 33 bridegroom | discourse |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 32 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 bridegroom | amod |
| 33 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cry | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Iván | punct |
| 35 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 bridegroom | appos |
| 36 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Iván | flat |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 45 other | punct |
| 38 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 other | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 other | cop |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 other | nsubj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 other | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 other | cc |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 other | advmod |
| 44 | that | that | ADP | _ | 45 other | case |
| 45 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jumped | parataxis |
| 46 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 sits | nsubj |
| 47 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 other | acl:relcl |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 table | case |
| 49 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 sits | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 jumped | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Eléna | Iván | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer iván=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | jump up | past | Fair | Fair's chair | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Fair not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | kiss | to-infinitive | Fair not said here | Iván's sweet lips | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | cry out speech: express | to-infinitive | Fair not said here | my beloved bridegroom | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not is in a quote | present | this | Iván nsubj; other property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | sit in a quote | present | table | who nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
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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