Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 33
Once a Tsar lived with his Tsarítsa beyond thrice-nine lands in the thrice-tenth kingdom.
What happens: live · To what, where: tenth kingdom
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: 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 Tsar | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Tsarítsa | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Tsarítsa | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 8 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 12 lands | case |
| 9 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lands | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 nine | punct |
| 11 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 lands | nummod |
| 12 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 kingdom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kingdom | det |
| 15 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tenth | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 thrice | punct |
| 17 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kingdom | amod |
| 18 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the tenth kingdom | once a Tsar; with VASILÍSA's Tsarítsa; beyond thrice nine lands | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with tsarítsa=Location |
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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