Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 78
Then Tsar Výslav Andrónovich stood up from his place and began to ask, and began to question the Princess Eléna the Fair what this might mean.
Who acts: Tsar, this · What happens: stand up, begin, ask, question, mean · To what, where: place, Princess Eléna · 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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stood | advmod |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | Výslav | Výslav | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tsar | flat |
| 4 | Andrónovich | Andrónovich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Výslav | flat |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 stood | compound:prt |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 place | nmod:poss |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 ask | mark |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 question | mark |
| 18 | question | question | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Eléna | det |
| 20 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Eléna | compound |
| 21 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 question | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Fair | det |
| 23 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Eléna | appos |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 mean | obj |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 mean | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 mean | aux |
| 27 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 question | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | Tsar | Tsar's place | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Tsar not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Tsar not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | Tsar not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | question speech: other | to-infinitive | Tsar not said here | the Princess Eléna | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mean | might | this | what obj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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