Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 43
The Tsar ordered the old woman to be given audience, and as soon as ever he had seen the linen he admired it very much.
Who acts: Tsar, doll · What happens: order, give, see, admire · To what, where: old woman, audience, linen
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, doll), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tsar | det |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 given | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 given | aux:pass |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 woman | acl |
| 10 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seen | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 soon | advmod |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 seen | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 ever | case |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 soon | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 ordered | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 linen | det |
| 21 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 admired | nsubj |
| 23 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 linen | acl:relcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 admired | obj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 much | advmod |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 admired | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the Tsar | the old woman | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive · passive | the Tsar not said here | audience | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: audience=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | doll | the linen | ever | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer linen=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | admire | past | doll | linen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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