Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 66
Then the Tsarévna thought, “If he can get his legs back, I can do no more against him.”
Who acts: Tsarévna · What happens: think, get back, do · To what, where: legs, more · 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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarévna | det |
| 3 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | aux |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 legs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 get | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 get | conj |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 do | obj |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Tsarévna | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get back a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | Tsarévna | Tsarévna's legs | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | can | the Tsarévna = tsarévna | more | against Tsarévna | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality |
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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