Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 93
When the Tsar was going to take it, the cook came running up, and cried out: “Your Majesty, do not eat it!”
Who acts: Tsar, cook · What happens: go, take, come, run up, cry out, not eat · To what, where: cake, Majesty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tsar, cook), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 going | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 came | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cook | det |
| 11 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 came | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 running | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cried | cc |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 cried | compound:prt |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Majesty | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Majesty | punct |
| 21 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 eat | punct |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 eat | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 eat | advmod |
| 26 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 cried | parataxis |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 eat | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 eat | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | the Tsar | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | the Tsar not said here | cake | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the cook | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run up | gerund | the cook not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cry out speech: express | past | the cook not said here | Your Majesty | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | not eat in a quote | infinitive · do-support | cake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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