Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 30
This she was told, and she bade the Tsarévich be introduced into her castle: he was to set her a riddle in front of all her councillors and her princes and _boyárs_.
Who acts: Anna, Tsarévich · What happens: tell, bade, introduce, be · To what, where: This, Tsarévich, castle, front · 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 (Anna, Tsarévich), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bade | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bade | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | nsubj |
| 8 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tsarévich | det |
| 10 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 introduced | aux:pass |
| 12 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bade | parataxis |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 castle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 introduced | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 set | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 set | mark |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | ccomp |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 riddle | det |
| 23 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 front | case |
| 25 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 councillors | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 councillors | det:predet |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 councillors | nmod:poss |
| 29 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 front | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 princes | cc |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 princes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 councillors | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 boyárs | cc |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 boyárs | punct |
| 35 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 councillors | conj |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | This | Anna nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bade | past | Anna | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | introduce | infinitive · passive | the Tsarévich | Anna's castle | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is not said to happen | past | Tsarévich | front of Anna's councillors and Anna's princes and boyárs | Anna obj; a riddle obj; set property | 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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