Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 80
The Tsarévna still wanted to test her husband’s strength, and squeezed his hand, but she squeezed so hard that he could not stand it, and his blood mounted to his head, and his eyes almost fell out of their sockets.
Who acts: Tsarévna, husband, blood, eyes · What happens: want, test, squeeze, not stand, mount, fall · To what, where: strength, hand, head, sockets
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, husband, blood, eyes), 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 | 2 Tsarévna | det |
| 2 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 wanted | advmod |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 test | mark |
| 6 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 husband | nmod:poss |
| 8 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 strength | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 husband | case |
| 10 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 test | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 squeezed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 squeezed | cc |
| 13 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanted | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 squeezed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 squeezed | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 squeezed | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 squeezed | nsubj |
| 19 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanted | parataxis |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 hard | advmod |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 squeezed | advmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 stand | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 stand | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 stand | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 stand | advmod |
| 26 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hard | ccomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 stand | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 mounted | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 mounted | cc |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 blood | nmod:poss |
| 31 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 mounted | nsubj |
| 32 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 squeezed | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 head | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 head | nmod:poss |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 mounted | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 fell | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 fell | cc |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 fell | nsubj |
| 40 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 41 fell | advmod |
| 41 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanted | conj |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 45 sockets | case |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 sockets | case |
| 44 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 sockets | nmod:poss |
| 45 | sockets | socket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 fell | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the Tsarévna | still | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | test not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Tsarévna not said here | Tsarévna's husband's strength | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | ||||
| 3 | squeeze | past | the Tsarévna not said here | husband's hand | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | squeeze | past | Tsarévna | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not stand | could | husband | strength | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | mount | participle | husband's blood | husband's head | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to head=Location | ||||
| 7 | fall | past | husband's eyes | hands's sockets | almost property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out socket=Location |
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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