Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 17
But the Tsarévna had a better idea—that he ought to be sent to hell.
Who acts: Tsarévna · What happens: have, send · To what, where: better idea, Tsarévna, hell
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 had | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarévna | det |
| 3 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 idea | det |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 idea | amod |
| 7 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 sent | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sent | nsubj |
| 11 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sent | aux |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 sent | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sent | aux:pass |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 idea | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 hell | case |
| 16 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Tsarévna | a better idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | send | ought · passive | the Tsarévna not said here | Tsarévna | hell | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hell=Destination |
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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