Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 88
But very soon the Tsarévich was a far finer cook than all the royal chefs.
Who acts: Tsarévich · What happens: be · To what, where: far finer cook
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 (Tsarévich), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 cook | cc |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 cook | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tsarévich | det |
| 5 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cook | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cook | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cook | det |
| 8 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cook | amod |
| 9 | finer | finer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cook | compound |
| 10 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 chefs | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 chefs | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chefs | det |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 chefs | amod |
| 15 | chefs | chef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cook | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Tsarévich | a far finer cook | than all royal chefs; soon property | 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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