Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 47
Now the Tsar wanted to have shirts made out of this same linen, but he could not find any seamstress to undertake the work.
Who acts: Tsar, shirts, father · What happens: want, have, make out, not find, undertake · To what, where: shirts, same linen, seamstress, work
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, shirts, father), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wanted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shirts | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 linen | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 linen | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 linen | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 linen | amod |
| 13 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 find | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 find | advmod |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | conj |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 seamstress | det |
| 21 | seamstress | seamstress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 undertake | mark |
| 23 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 seamstress | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 work | det |
| 25 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 undertake | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the Tsar | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Tsar not said here | shirts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make out | participle | shirts not said here | this same linen | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer linen=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not find | could | father | any seamstress | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seamstress=Topic | ||||
| 5 | undertake | to-infinitive | father not said here | the work | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
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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