Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 20
But the Tsarévna had a little dog that had followed her all the way from home.
Who acts: Tsarévna · What happens: have, follow · To what, where: little dog
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévna), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 had | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarévna | det |
| 3 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dog | amod |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 followed | aux |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dog | acl:relcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 followed | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 way | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 way | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Tsarévna | a little dog | all way obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow | past · perfect · passive | a little dog | Tsarévna obj | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme she=Attribute |
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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