Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 120
That was themselves!” the Sea Tsar exclaimed, and he himself leapt out to hunt after Iván Tsarévich and Vasilísa the Wise.
Who acts: That, Sea Tsar, Tsar · What happens: be, exclaim, leapt out, hunt · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Sea Tsar, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 themselves | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 themselves | cop |
| 3 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 themselves | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 themselves | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tsar | det |
| 7 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Tsar | compound |
| 8 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leapt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leapt | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 leapt | nsubj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 12 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | leapt | leapt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 exclaimed | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 leapt | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hunt | mark |
| 17 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 leapt | advcl |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 Iván | case |
| 19 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hunt | obl |
| 20 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Iván | flat |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Vasilísa | cc |
| 22 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Iván | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Wise | det |
| 24 | Wise | Wise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Vasilísa | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | the Sea Tsar | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leapt out in a quote | infinitive | Tsar | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hunt in a quote | to-infinitive | Tsar not said here | after Iván and Vasilísa | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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