Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 74
The Tsarítsa received the letter and had it read to her.
Who acts: Tsarítsa, letter · What happens: receive, have, read · To what, where: letter, Tsarítsa
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarítsa, letter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tsarítsa | det |
| 2 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 letter | det |
| 5 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 had | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 read | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the Tsarítsa | the letter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Tsarítsa not said here | letter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | read | participle | letter not said here | Tsarítsa | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
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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