Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 21
“You must be mad, woman,” said the Tsar, “it’s quite a young heifer and so beautiful!”
Who acts: You, Tsar · What happens: be, say · To what, where: young heifer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. 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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mad | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 mad | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 mad | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mad | cop |
| 5 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 woman | punct |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mad | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mad | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mad | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tsar | det |
| 12 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heifer | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 heifer | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 heifer | nsubj |
| 16 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 heifer | cop |
| 17 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 heifer | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 heifer | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 heifer | amod |
| 20 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Tsar | appos |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 beautiful | cc |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | conj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 beautiful | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | You | woman vocative; mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Tsar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Tsar | quite young heifer | 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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