Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 32
Now, the Tsar had three daughters, and the father summoned them and showed them the soldier’s portrait.
Who acts: Tsar, father, soldier · What happens: have, summon, show, portray · To what, where: three daughters, daughters
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, father, soldier), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Tsar | det |
| 4 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 daughters | nummod |
| 7 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 summoned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 summoned | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 father | det |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 summoned | nsubj |
| 12 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 summoned | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 showed | cc |
| 15 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 summoned | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 showed | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 soldier | det |
| 18 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 soldier | case |
| 20 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 showed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Tsar | three daughters | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | summon | past | the father | daughters = daughter | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | show | past | the father not said here | daughters = daughter | the soldier's portrait obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient portrait=Topic | |||
| 4 | portray | the soldier | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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