Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 36
And the Tsar was even more angry, and he asked Prince Evstáfi: “What is this new insolence of yours?”
Who acts: Tsar, Tsarévich, Evstáfi · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: Evstáfi, new insolence · 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: who acts (Tsar, Tsarévich, Evstáfi), 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 | _ | 7 angry | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | cop |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 angry | advmod |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | conj |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Evstáfi | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Evstáfi | Evstáfi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 insolence | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 insolence | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 insolence | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 insolence | cop |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 insolence | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 insolence | amod |
| 20 | insolence | insolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Evstáfi | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 yours | case |
| 22 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 insolence | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 Evstáfi | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Tsar | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Tsarévich | Evstáfi Prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Evstáfi Prince | yours's new insolence | yours nmod:poss | 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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