Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 32
The fair Tsarévna listened to the riddle: “Good lies on the road; we took the good with good, and set it down to our good.”
Who acts: fair Tsarévna, we · What happens: listen, take, set down · To what, where: good, riddle · 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 (fair Tsarévna, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarévna | det |
| 2 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tsarévna | amod |
| 3 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 riddle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 riddle | det |
| 7 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 lies | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 lies | punct |
| 10 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lies | amod |
| 11 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 riddle | appos |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lies | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 good | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 took | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 good | case |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 good | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 took | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 set | obj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 good | case |
| 28 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 good | nmod:poss |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 set | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the fair Tsarévna | to the riddle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past | we | the good | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set down in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | riddle | to our good | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |
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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