Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 82
And the Tsarítsa spoke to the angel who was taking the shape of the Tsar: “Thou, my dear lord, for one year hast not slept with me.
Who acts: Tsarítsa, angel, Thou, dear lord · What happens: speak, take, lord, not sleep · To what, where: shape · 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 (Tsarítsa, angel, Thou, dear lord), 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 spoke | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarítsa | det |
| 3 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 angel | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 angel | det |
| 7 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obl |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 taking | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taking | aux |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 angel | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shape | det |
| 12 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Tsar | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tsar | det |
| 15 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shape | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 lord | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 lord | punct |
| 18 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 lord | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lord | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lord | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lord | amod |
| 22 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 slept | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 year | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 year | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 year | nummod |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lord | conj |
| 27 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 slept | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 slept | advmod |
| 29 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 spoke | ccomp |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 me | case |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 slept | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the Tsarítsa | to the angel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past · progressive | the angel | the shape of the Tsar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lord in a quote | Thou | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not sleep in a quote | present · perfect | my dear lord and one year | with the Tsarítsa = tsarítsa | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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