Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 36
And the Tsar thought and thought, and he said, “How can you be of any service to me?”
Who acts: Tsar, VASILÍSA · What happens: think, say, be · To what, where: VASILÍSA · 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 (Tsar, VASILÍSA), 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 thought | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thought | cc |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 service | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 service | punct |
| 13 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 can | advmod |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 service | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 can | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 service | cop |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 service | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 service | det |
| 19 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 service | nmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 service | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 service | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Tsar | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the Tsar not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | can | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | of any service | tree rules |
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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