Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 43
Then the Tsar was very blithe at this, and he went and told the soldier to make ready for the betrothal, and he sent him twelve carts to carry the money away.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: be, go, tell, make, send, carry away · To what, where: this, soldier, twelve carts, money · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 blithe | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 blithe | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blithe | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 blithe | advmod |
| 6 | blithe | blithe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 blithe | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blithe | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 soldier | det |
| 16 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 told | ccomp |
| 19 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 make | xcomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 betrothal | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 betrothal | det |
| 22 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ready | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sent | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sent | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sent | nsubj |
| 26 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blithe | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sent | obj |
| 28 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 carts | nummod |
| 29 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sent | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 carry | mark |
| 31 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sent | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 money | det |
| 33 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carry | obj |
| 34 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 carry | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blithe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Tsar | this | then | blithe property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | go | past | Tsar | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Tsar not said here | the soldier | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | send | past | Tsar | twelve carts | soldier | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination cart=Theme | |||
| 6 | carry away | to-infinitive | Tsar not said here | the money | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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