Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 52
The Tsar one day had to leave home, and in his absence a disaster befell them; the Tsarévich disappeared.
Who acts: Tsar day, disaster, Tsarévich, Tsarítsa · What happens: have, leave, befall, disappear, absent · To what, where: people, absence
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 day, disaster, Tsarévich, Tsarítsa), 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 | 4 day | det |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Tsar | flat |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 leave | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 befell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 befell | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 absence | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 absence | nmod:poss |
| 13 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 befell | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 disaster | det |
| 15 | disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 befell | nsubj |
| 16 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 befell | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 disappeared | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Tsarévich | det |
| 20 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 disappeared | nsubj |
| 21 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Tsar day | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | the Tsar day not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | befall | past | a disaster | people | Tsarítsa's absence | tree rules | |||
| 4 | disappear | past | the Tsarévich | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | absent | Tsarítsa | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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