Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 38
Then the Tsar was angry and married the poor man to the Princess, and after the wedding he set them both with the child in a big tub, smeared it with tar, and sent it out into the open sea.
Who acts: Tsar, man · What happens: be, marry, set, smear, send out · To what, where: poor man, Tyátya, tub, open sea
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 (Tsar, man), 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 | 5 angry | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 married | cc |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 married | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Princess | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 married | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 wedding | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wedding | det |
| 18 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | obj |
| 22 | both | both | ADV | _ | 20 set | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 child | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 child | det |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 tub | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 tub | det |
| 28 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tub | amod |
| 29 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 child | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 smeared | punct |
| 31 | smeared | smear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 set | parataxis |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 smeared | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 tar | case |
| 34 | tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 smeared | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sent | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 sent | cc |
| 37 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 smeared | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 sent | obj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 sent | compound:prt |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 sea | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 sea | det |
| 42 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 sea | amod |
| 43 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sent | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Tsar | then | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | marry | past | the Tsar not said here | the poor man | to the Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent man=Patient to princess=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | set | past | man | Tyátya | after the wedding | with the child in a big tub; both property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with child=Instrument | ||
| 4 | smear | past | tub | with tar | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with tar=Theme | ||||
| 5 | send out | past | tub | the open sea | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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