Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 99
“I know nothing about it; I had no idea of it, your Majesty!” the Tsarévich answered.
Who acts: Tsarévich · What happens: know, have, answer · To what, where: nothing, idea · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 idea | det |
| 11 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 idea | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Majesty | punct |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Tsarévich | det |
| 20 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 answered | nsubj |
| 21 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | the Tsarévich = tsarévich | nothing | about death | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | the Tsarévich = tsarévich | no idea of death | your Majesty obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | |||
| 3 | answer speech: express | past | the Tsarévich | 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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