Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 89
“I am frightened, Iván Tsarévich; if Koshchéy catches us up you will again be torn to atoms.”
Who acts: Koshchéy · What happens: frighten, catch up, tear · To what, where: God, us, you
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Koshchéy), 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 | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Iván | punct |
| 6 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 frightened | obj |
| 7 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Iván | flat |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 catches | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 catches | mark |
| 10 | Koshchéy | Koshchéy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 catches | nsubj |
| 11 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 catches | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 catches | compound:prt |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 torn | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 torn | aux |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 torn | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 torn | aux:pass |
| 18 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 catches | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 atoms | case |
| 20 | atoms | atom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 torn | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten in a quote | present · passive | God | Iván obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer iván=Result | ||||
| 2 | catch up a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Koshchéy | us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tear in a quote | future · passive | you | again | to atoms result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to atom=Result |
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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