Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 37
Then the Tsarévna saw from her rooms and was very much frightened, and sent her _boyárs_ and generals to ask for peace.
Who acts: Tsarévna · What happens: see, frighten, send, general, ask · To what, where: rooms, princess
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tsarévna | det |
| 3 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 rooms | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 7 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 frightened | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 frightened | aux:pass |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 frightened | advmod |
| 12 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sent | cc |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | parataxis |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sent | obj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 boyárs | punct |
| 18 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sent | obl |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 generals | cc |
| 21 | generals | general | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 ask | mark |
| 23 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 generals | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 peace | case |
| 25 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ask | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Tsarévna | princess's rooms | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | frighten | past · passive | the Tsarévna not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | send | past | princess | boyárs obl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | general | present | the Tsarévna not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the Tsarévna not said here | for peace | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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