Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 29
But when he saw the Tsar come to see him, his hands so trembled for fear that he rent the twelve hides.
Who acts: NIKÍTA, Tsar · What happens: see, come, tremble, rend · To what, where: Tsar, NIKÍTA, hands, twelve hides
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 (NIKÍTA, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsar | det |
| 6 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trembled | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 trembled | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 trembled | advmod |
| 15 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 fear | case |
| 17 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trembled | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 rent | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rent | nsubj |
| 20 | rent | rend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 trembled | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hides | det |
| 22 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 hides | nummod |
| 23 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rent | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | NIKÍTA = nikíta | the Tsar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | the Tsar not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the Tsar not said here | NIKÍTA = nikíta | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | tremble | participle · passive | NIKÍTA's hands | for fear | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rend | past | NIKÍTA = nikíta | the twelve hides | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient |
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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