Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 39

And the Tsar thought and thought, and again he could not imagine whatever service the eagle would be to him, and he still wanted to shoot him.

Who acts: Tsar, VASILÍSA, eagle · What happens: think, not imagine, be, want, shoot · To what, where: whatever, 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, eagle), 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	_	13 imagine	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 imagine	cc
9	again	again	ADV	_	13 imagine	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 imagine	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 imagine	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 imagine	advmod
13	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thought	ccomp
14	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 imagine	obj
15	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 whatever	nsubj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 eagle	det
17	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 him	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 him	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 him	cop
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 whatever	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wanted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wanted	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wanted	nsubj
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 wanted	advmod
26	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 shoot	mark
28	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wanted	xcomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 shoot	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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 consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not imagine	could	VASILÍSA = vasilísa	whatever service	again		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme
4	is	would	the eagle			to eagle	tree rules
5	want	past	VASILÍSA = vasilísa		still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	shoot not said to happen	to-infinitive	VASILÍSA = vasilísa not said here	VASILÍSA = vasilísa			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 39

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 39