Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 74
So the Tsar turned round and looked, and said, “Behind us there is a beauteous house.”
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: turn round, look, say, be · To what, where: beauteous house · 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 house | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 house | punct |
| 13 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 is | mark |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 is | nsubj |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 house | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 18 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 house | amod |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 house | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past | the Tsar | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the Tsar not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Tsar not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | a beauteous house | 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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