Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 64
He was taken up to the Tsarévna, who looked at him and said, “Who are you?”
Who acts: Tsarévna, you · What happens: take up, look, say, be · To what, where: Katomá, Tsarévna · 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, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux:pass |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 taken | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Tsarévna | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tsarévna | det |
| 7 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Tsarévna | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Who | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Who | punct |
| 17 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 said | parataxis |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Who | cop |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 Who | nsubj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past · passive | Katomá | the Tsarévna | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to tsarévna=Destination | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the Tsarévna | at Katomá | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules |
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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