Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 55
And Iván Tsarévich answered, “If Ólga Tsarévna pleases you, she may go to you—I will not withstand your will.”
Who acts: Iván, Ólga · What happens: answer, please, go, not withstand · To what, where: you · 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 (Iván, Ólga), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | flat |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 pleases | mark |
| 8 | Ólga | Ólga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pleases | nsubj |
| 9 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ólga | flat |
| 10 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 pleases | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pleases | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 withstand | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 withstand | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 withstand | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 withstand | advmod |
| 22 | withstand | withstand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 will | nmod:poss |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 withstand | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 withstand | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 withstand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Iván | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | please a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Ólga | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | may | Ólga = ólga | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | not withstand in a quote | future | Iván | 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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