Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 29
And the Tsar agreed, and gave him the three hours’ respite.
Who acts: Tsar, three hours · What happens: agree, give, respite · To what, where: respite, Tsarévich
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, three hours), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 agreed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gave | cc |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | iobj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hours | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hours | nummod |
| 11 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 respite | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 11 hours | case |
| 13 | respite | respite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Tsar | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the Tsar not said here | the three hours's respite | Tsarévich | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient respite=Theme | |||
| 3 | respite | the three hours | nom respite «state transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/18/29/