Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 106
Then Ánna Tsarévna came out, met him joyously, began to kiss and to welcome him, asking him how he was.
Who acts: Ánna · What happens: come out, meet, begin, kiss, welcome, ask · To what, where: Ánna · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ánna), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | Ánna | Ánna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ánna | flat |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | obj |
| 9 | joyously | joyously | ADV | _ | 7 met | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 kiss | mark |
| 13 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 welcome | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 welcome | mark |
| 16 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 kiss | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 welcome | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asking | punct |
| 19 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 began | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asking | obj |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 was | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 was | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 asking | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | Ánna | then | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | meet | past | Ánna not said here | Ánna = ánna | joyously property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | begin | past | Ánna not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | kiss | to-infinitive | Ánna not said here | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | welcome | to-infinitive | Ánna not said here | Ánna = ánna | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Ánna not said here | Ánna = ánna | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | be | past | Ánna = ánna | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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