Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 29
Iván Tsarévich answered: “I have come from my distant realm in order to woo Anna Tsarévna the Fair.”
Who acts: Iván · What happens: answer, come, woo · To what, where: distant realm, Anna · 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), 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 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 realm | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 realm | nmod:poss |
| 11 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 realm | amod |
| 12 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 order | case |
| 14 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 realm | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 woo | mark |
| 16 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | advcl |
| 17 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 woo | obj |
| 18 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Anna | flat |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Fair | det |
| 20 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 woo | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Iván | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · perfect | Iván | my distant realm in order | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from realm=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | woo in a quote | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | Anna | the Fair obj | tree rules |
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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