Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 156
“I should be very glad to take you, Iván Tsarévich, but I too shall not live much longer,” was the answer he received.
Who acts: I, Iván · What happens: be, take, not live, receive · To what, where: you, answer · 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 (I, Iván), 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 | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 glad | advmod |
| 6 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 answer | csubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Iván | punct |
| 11 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 glad | obl |
| 12 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Iván | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 live | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 live | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 live | nsubj |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 live | advmod |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 live | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 live | advmod |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | advcl |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 longer | advmod |
| 21 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 live | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 answer | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 answer | det |
| 26 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 received | nsubj |
| 28 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 answer | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | should | I | Iván obl; glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | ||||
| 3 | not live in a quote | shall | I | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be speech: assert | past | the answer | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | receive | past | Iván | the answer not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
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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