Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 27
Then she took the little coffer out of her father’s hands, took out the apple and the saucer, and herself asked the Tsar, “What do you want to see, O Tsar my Emperor?
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: take, take out, ask, want, see · To what, where: little coffer, hands, apple, Tsar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coffer | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coffer | amod |
| 6 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 hands | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hands | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 father | case |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 took | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 apple | det |
| 17 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saucer | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 saucer | det |
| 20 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 apple | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 asked | cc |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 asked | nsubj |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Tsar | det |
| 26 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 asked | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 want | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 want | punct |
| 29 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 want | obj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 want | aux |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 want | nsubj |
| 32 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 asked | ccomp |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 see | mark |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 want | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Tsar | punct |
| 36 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 37 Tsar | case |
| 37 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 see | obj |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 Emperor | nmod:poss |
| 39 | Emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 see | obj |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Tsar | the little coffer | Tsar's father's hands | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent coffer=Theme out hand=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | take out | past | Tsar not said here | the apple and the saucer | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Tsar | the Tsar | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent tsar=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present · do-support | the Tsar = tsar | What obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Tsar = tsar not said here | Tsar | my Emperor obj | 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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