Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 86
But before ever the Tsar had had time to undress in the front room, she was in the bath and out of it, so quick was she, and the Tsar was as puzzled as ever.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: have, undress, be, puzzle · To what, where: front room, bath, Tsar
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 2 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 had | advmod |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 Tsar | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tsar | det |
| 5 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | aux |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 undress | mark |
| 10 | undress | undress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 time | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 13 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 room | amod |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 undress | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bath | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bath | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bath | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 bath | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bath | det |
| 20 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 it | cc |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bath | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 she | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 she | advmod |
| 27 | quick | quick | ADV | _ | 29 she | advmod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 she | cop |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 puzzled | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 puzzled | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 puzzled | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Tsar | det |
| 33 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 puzzled | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 puzzled | aux:pass |
| 35 | as | as | ADV | _ | 36 puzzled | advmod |
| 36 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 had | parataxis |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 ever | case |
| 38 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 puzzled | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | the Tsar | time | before property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | undress | to-infinitive | the Tsar not said here | the front room | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Tsar | the bath | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Tsar | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | puzzle | past · passive | Tsar | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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