Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 79
Then the fair Princess told him all the real truth, how it had been.
Who acts: fair Princess · What happens: tell · To what, where: real truth, 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 (fair Princess), 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 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Princess | amod |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 truth | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 truth | det |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 truth | amod |
| 10 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 been | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 been | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 been | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 been | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 truth | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the fair Princess | all real truth | Eléna | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient truth=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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