Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 60
When Anna Tsarévna saw this she cried out aloud, “What is that wretched herdsman doing?
Who acts: Anna, wretched herdsman · What happens: see, cry out, be, do · To what, where: this, wretched herdsman · 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 (Anna, wretched herdsman), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Anna | flat |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 cried | compound:prt |
| 9 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 7 cried | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 herdsman | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 herdsman | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 herdsman | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 herdsman | cop |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 herdsman | det |
| 15 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 herdsman | amod |
| 16 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 17 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 herdsman | acl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Anna | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | Anna | aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that wretched herdsman | What nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | gerund | that wretched herdsman not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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