Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 87
In the meantime Vasilísa Vasílyevna had written a letter and bade the attendants give it to the Tsar as soon as he came out of the bath.
Who acts: attendants, bade · What happens: write, give, come out · To what, where: Vasilísa, meantime, Tsar, bath
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 (attendants, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 written | obl |
| 4 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 written | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | Vasílyevna | Vasílyevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Vasilísa | flat |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 written | aux |
| 7 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 letter | det |
| 9 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 written | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bade | cc |
| 11 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 letter | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 attendants | det |
| 13 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 give | nsubj |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 letter | acl:relcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 give | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Tsar | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Tsar | det |
| 18 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 written | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 came | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 soon | advcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 bath | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 bath | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bath | det |
| 27 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · perfect · passive | Vasilísa | the meantime | a letter and bade obj; soon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient letter=Topic | |||
| 2 | give | present | the attendants | meantime | the Tsar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to tsar=Recipient | |||
| 3 | come out | past | bade | the bath | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient bath=Result |
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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