Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 99
Then all the Tsars and Tsarévichi, Kings and Korolévichi cried out fiercely, “Ho! ho! ho! what a deed! are Tsars turning into thieves?”
Who acts: Tsars · What happens: cry out, be, turn · To what, where: ho ho, Tsars, thieves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tsars), 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 | 11 cried | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 Tsars | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Tsars | det |
| 4 | Tsars | tsar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Tsarévichi | cc |
| 6 | Tsarévichi | Tsarévichi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tsars | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kings | punct |
| 8 | Kings | Kings | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tsarévichi | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Korolévichi | cc |
| 10 | Korolévichi | Korolévichi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tsarévichi | conj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 cried | compound:prt |
| 13 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 11 cried | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ho | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 ho | punct |
| 16 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ho | compound |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ho | punct |
| 18 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ho | compound |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 ho | punct |
| 20 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 what | punct |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 deed | det |
| 24 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 what | nsubj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 Tsars | punct |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Tsars | cop |
| 27 | Tsars | tsar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 28 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 Tsars | acl |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 thieves | case |
| 30 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 turning | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 turning | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Tsars | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | all Tsars and Tsarévichi and Korolévichi | ho ho | then | what a deed parataxis; fiercely property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Tsars | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | gerund | Tsars not said here | thieves | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into thief=Trajectory |
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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