Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 105
“Out of joy,” he said; for he feared to tell her the truth that he must give up the Tsarévich.
Who acts: Tsarítsa, truth · What happens: say, fear, tell, give up · To what, where: joy, horse, Tsarévich · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarítsa, truth), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 4 joy | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 joy | case |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 joy | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 joy | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 feared | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 feared | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 feared | nsubj |
| 12 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tell | mark |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 feared | xcomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 truth | det |
| 17 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 give | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 give | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 give | aux |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 truth | acl:relcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 give | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Tsarévich | det |
| 24 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 give | iobj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Tsarítsa | joy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fear | past | Tsarítsa | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the truth | horse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | give up | must | the truth | the Tsarévich | Tsarítsa nsubj | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsarévich=Source |
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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