Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 79
I wanted to cure the Tsar’s daughter all by myself, and I was not able, and they are now going to hang me.
Who acts: I, fiends · What happens: want, cure, not be, go, hang · To what, where: daughter, me
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fiends), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 cure | mark |
| 4 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsar | det |
| 6 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Tsar | case |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cure | obj |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 myself | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 myself | case |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 cure | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 able | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 able | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 able | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 able | advmod |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wanted | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 going | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 going | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 going | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 going | advmod |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wanted | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 hang | mark |
| 25 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 going | xcomp |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 hang | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cure not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the Tsar's daughter | by myself | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer daughter=Source | |||
| 3 | not is | past | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | present · progressive | fiends = fiend | now | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | hang | to-infinitive | fiends = fiend not said here | me | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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