Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 76
And a great fear fell upon her, and in her fear she began to speak: “How can this poor man name me his wife?
Who acts: great fear, Tsarítsa, poor man · What happens: fall, begin, speak, name, fear · To what, where: fear, Tsarítsa · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (great fear, Tsarítsa, poor man), 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 | _ | 5 fell | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fear | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fear | amod |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fear | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fear | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fear | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fear | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fear | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 speak | mark |
| 16 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 name | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 name | punct |
| 19 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 name | advmod |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 name | aux |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 man | det |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 name | nsubj |
| 24 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fell | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 name | obj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 name | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a great fear | Tsarítsa's fear | upon Tsarítsa | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon she=Location | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa's fear not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | Tsarítsa not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | name in a quote | can | this poor man | Tsarítsa | fear's wife obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme wife=Attribute | |||
| 5 | fear | Tsarítsa | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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