Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 121
Now, the fair Tsarévna had been noticing the horseherd for a long time, for a very long time, for how could so fair a maiden overlook the beautiful boy?
Who acts: fair Tsarévna · What happens: notice, fair · To what, where: horseherd, maiden overlook
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair Tsarévna), 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 | 8 noticing | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tsarévna | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Tsarévna | amod |
| 5 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 noticing | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 noticing | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 noticing | aux |
| 8 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horseherd | det |
| 10 | horseherd | horseherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 noticing | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 noticing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 long | advmod |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 noticing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fair | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 fair | mark |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 fair | advmod |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 fair | aux |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 fair | advmod |
| 26 | fair | fair | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 noticing | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 overlook | det |
| 28 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 overlook | amod |
| 29 | overlook | overlook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fair | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 boy | det |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 boy | amod |
| 32 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fair | advcl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 noticing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past · perfect · progressive | the fair Tsarévna | the horseherd | now; time | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer horseherd=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fair | could | the fair Tsarévna not said here | a maiden overlook | the beautiful boy advcl | tree rules |
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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