Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 100

Then the Tsarévna’s father swore by everything holy that as to thieving there had never been such an idea in his head.

Who acts: father, that · What happens: swear, thieve, have, not be · To what, where: idea, head

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, that), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 swore	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsarévna	det
3	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 father	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Tsarévna	case
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swore	nsubj
6	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 everything	case
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 swore	obl
9	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swore	xcomp
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 thieving	nsubj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 thieving	mark
12	to	to	SCONJ	_	13 thieving	mark
13	thieving	thieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 holy	ccomp
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 thieving	advmod
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thieving	conj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 idea	advmod
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 idea	cop
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 idea	det:predet
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 idea	det
20	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 idea	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	the Tsarévna's father			then	by everything; holy property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	thieve	gerund	that		there			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	that not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not is a	participle		such idea	father's head			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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 100

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 100