Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 93

When the Tsar saw this he was grieved, and began to weep and say, “Whatever shall I do now? how shall I collect all of this herd into such a tiny coffer?”

Who acts: Tsar, I · What happens: see, grieve, begin, weep, say, do · To what, where: this, eagle, Whatever, all, tiny coffer · 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, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsar	det
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 saw	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grieved	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grieved	aux:pass
8	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 weep	mark
13	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 say	cc
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 weep	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
18	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 do	obj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 do	aux
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 do	nsubj
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 collect	parataxis
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 do	advmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 collect	advmod
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 collect	aux
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 collect	nsubj
27	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 say	ccomp
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 collect	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 herd	case
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 herd	det
31	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 all	nmod
32	into	into	ADP	_	36 coffer	case
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	36 coffer	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 coffer	det
35	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 coffer	amod
36	coffer	coffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 all	nmod
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	past	the Tsar	this			tree rules
2	grieve	past · passive		eagle			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	weep	to-infinitive					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: ask	infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do in a quote	shall	I	Whatever		now	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality
7	collect in a quote	shall	I	all of this herd	such tiny coffer		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent all=Material into coffer=Product

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 93

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 93