Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 55
So fifteen years went by, until at last the Tsar received news that in a certain village a peasant had found a child who was a wonder for his beauty and his cleverness.
Who acts: fifteen years, last Tsar, child · What happens: go by, receive, find, be · To what, where: news, peasant, certain village, wonder
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 (fifteen years, last Tsar, child), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 received | punct |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 received | mark |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Tsar | amod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Tsar | det |
| 11 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 received | nsubj |
| 12 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 received | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 found | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 village | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 village | det |
| 17 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 village | amod |
| 18 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 peasant | det |
| 20 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | aux |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 news | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 child | det |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 wonder | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 wonder | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 wonder | det |
| 28 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 child | appos |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 beauty | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 31 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wonder | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 cleverness | cc |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 cleverness | nmod:poss |
| 34 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 beauty | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | fifteen years | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | receive | past | the last Tsar | news | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past · perfect · passive | a peasant | a certain village | news obj; a child obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | past | a child | a wonder | for peasant's beauty and peasant's cleverness | 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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