Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 40

If her husband told her to get up early, she would lie in bed three days at a stretch; if he wanted her to go to sleep, she couldn't think of sleeping.

Who acts: husband, wife, Benfey · What happens: tell, get up, lie, want, go, not think · To what, where: wife, bed, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, wife, Benfey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husband	nmod:poss
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 think	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 get	compound:prt
9	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 get	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lie	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lie	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 lie	aux
13	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 get	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 bed	case
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lie	obl
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 days	nummod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lie	obl:unmarked
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 stretch	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stretch	det
20	stretch	stretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lie	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 wanted	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 wanted	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wanted	nsubj
24	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wanted	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wanted	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 sleep	case
29	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 think	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 think	aux
33	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 think	advmod
34	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 sleeping	case
36	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 think	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	wife's husband		wife				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	get up not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife's husband not said here					early property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	lie	would	wife			bed	day	at a stretch	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
4	want a condition, not said to happen	past	Benfey	wife					tree rules
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife not said here			sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
6	not think speech: other	could	wife					of sleeping	vn focus-87.1-1 «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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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