Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 37
The Tsar looked round, was amazed, took the fair maiden by the hand, said to her in a kindly voice, “I must for your goodness love your beauty: will you be my wife and the Tsarítsa of my fair realm?”
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: look, be, take, say, love · To what, where: fair maiden, Tsar, voice, beauty, wife · 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tsar | det |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 amazed | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 amazed | cop |
| 7 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maiden | det |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 maiden | amod |
| 12 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hand | det |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 voice | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 voice | det |
| 22 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 23 voice | advmod |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 love | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 love | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 must | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 love | aux |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 goodness | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 goodness | nmod:poss |
| 30 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 must | obl |
| 31 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | parataxis |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 33 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 love | obj |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 wife | punct |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 wife | aux |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 wife | nsubj |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 wife | cop |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 wife | nmod:poss |
| 39 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Tsarítsa | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Tsarítsa | det |
| 42 | Tsarítsa | Tsarítsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 wife | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 realm | case |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 realm | nmod:poss |
| 45 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 realm | amod |
| 46 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Tsarítsa | nmod |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 42 Tsarítsa | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Tsar | round property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Tsar not said here | amazed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the fair maiden | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | Tsar | a voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | love in a quote | must | your beauty | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | future | Tsar | my wife and the Tsarítsa of my fair realm | my nmod:poss; the Tsarítsa of my fair realm conj | 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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