Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 30
But, however much the Tsar and the Tsarítsa asked him, he would not set out against the dragon.
Who acts: Tsar, NIKÍTA · What happens: ask, not set out · To what, where: NIKÍTA · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tsar, NIKÍTA), 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 | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tsar | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 Tsar | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsar | det |
| 6 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Tsarítsa | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tsarítsa | det |
| 9 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tsar | conj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 set | advmod |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 dragon | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dragon | det |
| 20 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Tsar and the Tsarítsa | NIKÍTA = nikíta | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not set out | would | NIKÍTA = nikíta | against the dragon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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