Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 23
Then he came to the Sea Tsar, and the Sea Tsar shrieked out at him: “Why have you been so long?
Who acts: Tsarévich, Sea Tsar · What happens: come, shriek out, be · To what, where: Sea Tsar
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 (Tsarévich, Sea 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Tsar | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tsar | det |
| 6 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Tsar | compound |
| 7 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shrieked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shrieked | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tsar | det |
| 11 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tsar | compound |
| 12 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 shrieked | nsubj |
| 13 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 shrieked | compound:prt |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shrieked | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 19 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 have | advmod |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 long | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 long | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 long | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 shrieked | advmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Tsarévich | the Sea Tsar | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tsar=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | shriek out | past | the Sea Tsar | at Tsarévich | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present · perfect | long property | 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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