Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 39
Well, there was no help for it: so the Tsarévna herself got out of her carriage, recognised him and swooned.
Who acts: help, Tsarévna · What happens: be, get out, recognise, swoon · To what, where: carriage, Tsarévna
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 (help, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 was | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 help | det |
| 6 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 help | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tsarévna | det |
| 12 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 Tsarévna | appos |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 was | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 carriage | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 carriage | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 18 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognised | punct |
| 20 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 recognised | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 swooned | cc |
| 23 | swooned | swoon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 recognised | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no help for bade | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get out | past | the Tsarévna | help's carriage | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | recognise | past | the Tsarévna not said here | Tsarévna | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | swoon | past | the Tsarévna not said here | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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