Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 65
So the Tsarévich was greatly grieved; he was sorry for his mother, and he acknowledged his guilt to his father.
Who acts: Woodsprite · What happens: grieve, be, acknowledge · To what, where: Tsarévich, guilt, father
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 (Woodsprite), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 grieved | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarévich | det |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 grieved | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grieved | aux:pass |
| 5 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 6 grieved | advmod |
| 6 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 sorry | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sorry | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sorry | cop |
| 10 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grieved | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 mother | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sorry | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 acknowledged | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 acknowledged | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 acknowledged | nsubj |
| 17 | acknowledged | acknowledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grieved | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 guilt | nmod:poss |
| 19 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 acknowledged | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 father | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 acknowledged | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past · passive | the Tsarévich | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Woodsprite | for Woodsprite's mother; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | acknowledge | past | Woodsprite | Woodsprite's guilt | Woodsprite's father | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent guilt=Topic to father=Recipient |
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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