Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 28
Out of the window of her room, from a lofty turret, Vasilísa the Wise saw him and asked, “Hail, Iván Tsarévich! why are you weeping?”
Who acts: lofty turret, you · What happens: see, ask, weep · To what, where: Tsar, window, Hail · 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 (lofty turret, you), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 4 window | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 window | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 window | det |
| 4 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 room | nmod:poss |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 window | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turret | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 turret | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 turret | det |
| 11 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 turret | amod |
| 12 | turret | turret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Vasilísa | punct |
| 14 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 turret | appos |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Wise | det |
| 16 | Wise | Wise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Vasilísa | appos |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Hail | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Hail | punct |
| 23 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Iván | punct |
| 25 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Hail | appos |
| 26 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Iván | flat |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 Hail | punct |
| 28 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 weeping | advmod |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 weeping | aux |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 weeping | nsubj |
| 31 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 asked | advcl |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 31 weeping | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 weeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a lofty turret | Tsar | the window of Iván's room | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a lofty turret not said here | Hail | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hail=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | weep in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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