Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 53
In the morning the Sea Tsar asked Iván Tsarévich if he had done this service.
Who acts: Sea Tsar, Tsar · What happens: ask, do · To what, where: Iván, service
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsar | det |
| 5 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tsar | compound |
| 6 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Iván | flat |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 done | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 done | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | advcl |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 service | det |
| 15 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Sea Tsar | Iván | morning | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent iván=Recipient | |||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Tsar | this service | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality |
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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