Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 4
So she then gave him food and drink, and the Tsarévich told her all his sorrow without any concealment—whither he was going and why.
Who acts: Bába, Tsarévich · What happens: give, tell, go, sorrow · To what, where: food, sloth, sorrow, Bába · 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 (Bába, Tsarévich), 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 gave | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drink | cc |
| 8 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 food | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tsarévich | det |
| 12 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 told | nsubj |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 sorrow | det:predet |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obj |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 concealment | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 concealment | det |
| 20 | concealment | concealment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obl |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 going | punct |
| 22 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 going | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 going | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 going | aux |
| 25 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 told | ccomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 why | cc |
| 27 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 going | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Bába | food and drink | sloth | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the Tsarévich | Tsarévich's sorrow | Bába | without any concealment | tree rules | ||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | Tsarévich | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sorrow | Tsarévich | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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