Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 44

Now she flings herself on my neck, but when I sat in prison and sent her a letter to sell all my goods and to redeem me she did nothing.

Who acts: Tsarítsa, I · What happens: fling, sit, send, sell, redeem, do · To what, where: Tsarítsa, neck, prison, letter, goods, me

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarítsa, I), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 flings	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flings	nsubj
3	flings	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 flings	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 neck	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neck	nmod:poss
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flings	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 sat	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flings	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 prison	case
14	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sent	cc
16	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sent	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 letter	det
19	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sent	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sell	mark
21	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sent	advcl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 goods	det:predet
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 goods	nmod:poss
24	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	21 sell	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 redeem	cc
26	to	to	PART	_	27 redeem	mark
27	redeem	redeem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sell	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 redeem	obj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 did	nsubj
30	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 redeem	ccomp
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 did	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	fling	present	Tsarítsa	Tsarítsa		my neck	now	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on neck=Destination
2	sit	past	I			prison		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in prison=Location
3	send	past	I not said here	a letter	Tsarítsa			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination letter=Theme
4	sell	to-infinitive	I not said here	my goods				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme
5	redeem	to-infinitive	I not said here	me				tree rules
6	do	past	Tsarítsa	nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 44