Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 3
When the Tsar and the Tsarítsa had reached a great age both of them became ill, and they felt that they would never become hale again.
Who acts: Tsar, both · What happens: reach, become, feel, not become · To what, where: great age
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 (Tsar, both), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsar | det |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Tsarítsa | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tsarítsa | det |
| 6 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tsar | conj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reached | aux |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 became | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 age | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 age | amod |
| 11 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 12 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 became | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 both | nmod |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 became | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 felt | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 felt | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 became | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 become | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 become | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 become | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 become | advmod |
| 25 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 felt | ccomp |
| 26 | hale | hale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 become | xcomp |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 become | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | the Tsar and the Tsarítsa | a great age | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent age=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | both of Tsar | ill property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | Tsar | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not become | would | Tsar | again | hale property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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