Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 48
Next day the Tsarévna said, “Dear Tsarévich, my chosen husband, to-morrow we shall marry.
Who acts: Tsarévna, we · What happens: say, choose, marry · To what, where: morrow · 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 (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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Tsarévna | det |
| 4 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tsarévich | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tsarévich | punct |
| 8 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Tsarévich | amod |
| 9 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 husband | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 husband | amod |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Tsarévich | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 morrow | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 morrow | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 to | punct |
| 17 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 marry | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 marry | aux |
| 20 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 morrow | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Tsarévna | day | Dear Tsarévich ccomp; morrow ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | choose in a quote | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | marry in a quote | shall | we | morrow not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morrow=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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