Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 146

The Tsar was so glad at this that he never asked what the Tsarévich wanted the horse for, but ordered the very best of his _Tabún_ to be saddled for him.

Who acts: Tsar, Tsarévich · What happens: be, not ask, want, order, saddle · To what, where: this, horse, best · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. 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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tsar	det
2	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 glad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 glad	advmod
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 glad	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 asked	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 asked	advmod
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	advcl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 wanted	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Tsarévich	det
14	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 wanted	nsubj
15	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horse	det
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wanted	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	17 horse	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ordered	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 ordered	cc
21	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 best	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 best	advmod
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 ordered	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 Tabún	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 Tabún	nmod:poss
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	28 Tabún	punct
28	Tabún	Tabún	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 best	obl
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 ordered	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	32 saddled	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 saddled	aux:pass
32	saddled	saddle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 ordered	advcl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 saddled	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Tsar		this	glad property	tree rules
2	not ask speech: ask	past	Tsar				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	past	the Tsarévich	the horse		what obj	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme horse=Attribute
4	order	past		the best of Tsarévich's Tabún			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme
5	saddle	to-infinitive · passive				for Tsarévich	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 146

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 146