Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 76
Still the Tsar was utterly at a loss whether it were a maiden, and he had made up his mind to find out.
Who acts: you, Tsar, loss, bade · What happens: still, be, make up, find out, mind · To what, where: loss, mind
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 (you, Tsar, loss, bade), 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 | Still | still | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 loss | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 loss | cop |
| 5 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 8 loss | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 loss | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 loss | det |
| 8 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Still | obj |
| 9 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 13 maiden | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 maiden | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 maiden | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 maiden | det |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 loss | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | aux |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 loss | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 made | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mind | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | advcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 find | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | still | imperative | you not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the Tsar | a loss | utterly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | loss | maiden property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make up | past · perfect | bade | bade's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | find out | to-infinitive | bade not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | mind | bade | nom mind «cognition 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.
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