Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 136
Eléna Tsarévna was asking for her bridegroom; Eléna Tsarévna was wishing to show him to the whole world, desiring to give him the half of her kingdom; but never a bridegroom appeared.
Who acts: Eléna, bridegroom · What happens: ask, wish, show, desire, give, not appear · To what, where: bridegroom, half
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eléna, bridegroom), 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 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asking | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Eléna | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asking | aux |
| 4 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 bridegroom | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asking | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 wishing | punct |
| 9 | Eléna | Eléna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wishing | nsubj |
| 10 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Eléna | flat |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wishing | aux |
| 12 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 asking | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 show | mark |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wishing | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 show | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 world | amod |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 desiring | punct |
| 21 | desiring | desire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 wishing | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 give | mark |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 desiring | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 half | det |
| 26 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 23 give | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 kingdom | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 29 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 half | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 appeared | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 appeared | cc |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 appeared | advmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 bridegroom | det |
| 34 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 appeared | nsubj |
| 35 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asking | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · progressive | Eléna | for Eléna's bridegroom | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wish | past · progressive | Eléna | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show not said to happen | to-infinitive | Eléna not said here | bridegroom | to the whole world | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to world=Recipient | |||
| 4 | desire | gerund | Eléna not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | Eléna not said here | the half of Eléna's kingdom | bridegroom | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient half=Theme | |||
| 6 | not appear | past | a bridegroom | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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