Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 23
The Tsarévna got every day on more intimate terms with her dragon in order to discover who was stronger.
Who acts: Tsarévna · What happens: get, discover, be · To what, where: more intimate terms
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tsarévna | det |
| 2 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 terms | case |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 terms | amod |
| 8 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 terms | amod |
| 9 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 dragon | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dragon | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 terms | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 order | case |
| 14 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dragon | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 discover | mark |
| 16 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 got | advcl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 stronger | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stronger | cop |
| 19 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 discover | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Tsarévna | more intimate terms with Tsarévna's dragon in order | day | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on term=Source | |||
| 2 | discover | to-infinitive | the Tsarévna not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | who nsubj; strong 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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