Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 70
The King’s sons shot up, youths no men could imagine, guess, or draw, or paint; and the Tsarévna was such a beauty!
Who acts: sons, Tsarévna · What happens: shoot up, imagine, guess, draw, be · To what, where: sons, paint, beauty
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 (sons, 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sons | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 imagine | nsubj |
| 5 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sons | acl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 shot | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 youths | punct |
| 8 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sons | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 imagine | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 imagine | aux |
| 12 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 guess | punct |
| 14 | guess | guess | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 imagine | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 draw | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 draw | cc |
| 17 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 guess | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 paint | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 paint | cc |
| 20 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 draw | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 beauty | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 beauty | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Tsarévna | det |
| 24 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 beauty | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 beauty | cop |
| 26 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 beauty | det:predet |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 beauty | det |
| 28 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 imagine | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot up | participle | the King's sons and youths not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | imagine | could | the King's sons and youths | no men nsubj | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | guess | infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | draw | infinitive | paint | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | the Tsarévna | such beauty | 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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