Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 54
“I was frightened,” said the Tsar, “lest I should be drowned.”
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: frighten, say, drown · To what, where: Tsar · 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), 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 | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tsar | det |
| 9 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drowned | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 drowned | punct |
| 12 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 16 drowned | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 drowned | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 drowned | aux:pass |
| 16 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 drowned | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 drowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten in a quote | past · passive | the Tsar = tsar | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Tsar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | drown in a quote | should · passive | the Tsar = tsar | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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