Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 46
“Into the Queen’s courtyard; the Tsarévna counts them every day to see whether all the cows have come home.”
Who acts: Tsarévna, cows · What happens: count, see, come · To what, where: three, courtyard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévna, cows), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 courtyard | punct |
| 2 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 6 courtyard | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 courtyard | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Queen | case |
| 6 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 counts | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tsarévna | det |
| 9 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 counts | nsubj |
| 10 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 courtyard | acl:relcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 counts | obj |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 counts | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 counts | advcl |
| 16 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 cows | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cows | det |
| 19 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 see | ccomp |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 courtyard | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 courtyard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count in a quote | present | the Tsarévna | three | day | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | the Tsarévna not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · perfect | all cows | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/39/46/