Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 66
So Iván Tsarévich was there alone, and for one whole year he lived there without any sisters, and began to feel melancholy.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: be, live, begin, feel · To what, where: melancholy
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 there | advmod |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 there | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 lived | advmod |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 there | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lived | cc |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 year | nummod |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 year | amod |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 lived | advmod |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 sisters | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 sisters | det |
| 18 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lived | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lived | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 feel | mark |
| 23 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 feel | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Iván | alone, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | Iván | there | year | without any sisters | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 3 | begin | past | Iván not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | feel | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | melancholy | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melancholy=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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