Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 17
“Yes, Tsarévich, it will be hard for you; if you had to go there by yourself, you would never win her.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, have, go, not win · To what, where: Anna
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hard | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 hard | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tsarévich | punct |
| 4 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hard | expl |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hard | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hard | cop |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 hard | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hard | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 yourself | case |
| 20 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 win | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 win | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 win | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 win | advmod |
| 25 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hard | parataxis |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 win | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | for you; hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | there | by yourself | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by yourself=Location | |||
| 4 | not win in a quote | would | you | Anna | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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