Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 23
Iván Tsarévich said, “We have been so long on the journey and are at last approaching the realms of Anna the Fair, and still we have not thought out any riddles for her!”
Who acts: Iván, We · What happens: say, be, approach, not think out · To what, where: journey, realms, riddles · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Iván, We), 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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 journey | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 journey | punct |
| 6 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 journey | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 journey | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 journey | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 journey | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 journey | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 journey | det |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 last | cc |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 last | cop |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 journey | conj |
| 18 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 last | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 realms | det |
| 20 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 approaching | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Anna | case |
| 22 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 realms | nmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Fair | det |
| 24 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Anna | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 thought | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 thought | cc |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 31 thought | advmod |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 thought | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 thought | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 thought | advmod |
| 31 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 thought | compound:prt |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 riddles | det |
| 34 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 thought | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 thought | obl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 thought | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Iván | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present · perfect | We | the journey | long property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | We not said here | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | approach in a quote | gerund | We not said here | the realms of Anna | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent realm=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not think out speech: other in a quote | present · perfect | we | any riddles | still | for Anna | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot riddle=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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