Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 97
So the Tsar summoned the Prince and cried out to him in a thundering voice: “How dared you bake me a poisoned cake!
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: summon, cry out, dare, bake, poison · To what, where: Prince, Tsar, thundering voice, poisoned cake · 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), 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 | _ | 4 summoned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 summoned | nsubj |
| 4 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 summoned | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cried | cc |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 summoned | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cried | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | thundering | thundering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | compound |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 dared | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 dared | punct |
| 18 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 dared | advmod |
| 19 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 summoned | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 dared | obj |
| 21 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 dared | xcomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 bake | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cake | det |
| 24 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 cake | amod |
| 25 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bake | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | the Tsar | the Prince | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | the Tsar not said here | Tsar | a thundering voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | dare in a quote | past | the Tsar not said here | Tsar | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bake in a quote | infinitive | the Tsar not said here | a poisoned cake | the Tsar = tsar | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary cake=Product | |||
| 5 | poison in a quote | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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