Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 32
The Tsar with all his _boyárs_ looked on to see what was going to happen.
What happens: look on, see, go, happen · To what, where: Tsar · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tsar | det |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 boyárs | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 boyárs | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 boyárs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 boyárs | punct |
| 7 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Tsar | nmod |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 looked | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 looked | advcl |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 going | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 see | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 happen | mark |
| 17 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 going | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | participle · passive | the Tsar with Tsarévich's boyárs | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | what nsubj | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | happen | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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