Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 56

Then Dmítri Tsarévich put his sword to the breast of fair Princess Eléna: “Listen, Eléna the Fair, you are now in our hands: we will take you to our father, Tsar Výslav Andrónovich, and you are to tell him that we found you and the Bird of Light and the golden-maned steed.

Who acts: Dmítri, Výslav, we · What happens: put, listen, be, take, tell, find · To what, where: sword, Eléna, hands, Výslav · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dmítri, Výslav, we), 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 put	advmod
2	Dmítri	Dmítri	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
3	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Dmítri	flat
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sword	nmod:poss
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 breast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 breast	det
9	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Princess	case
11	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Princess	amod
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 breast	nmod
13	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Princess	flat
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Listen	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Listen	punct
16	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Eléna	punct
18	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Listen	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Fair	det
20	Fair	Fair	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Listen	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hands	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 hands	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hands	cop
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 hands	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 hands	case
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 take	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 take	aux
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	parataxis
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 take	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 father	case
34	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 father	nmod:poss
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Výslav	punct
37	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Výslav	compound
38	Výslav	Výslav	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
39	Andrónovich	Andrónovich	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Výslav	flat
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 are	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 are	cc
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 are	nsubj
43	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 take	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 tell	mark
45	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 are	xcomp
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 tell	iobj
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 found	mark
48	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 found	nsubj
49	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 tell	ccomp
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 found	obj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 Bird	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Bird	det
53	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 found	conj
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 Light	case
55	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 Bird	nmod
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 steed	cc
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 steed	det
58	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 maned	amod
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 golden	punct
60	maned	maned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 steed	amod
61	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 Light	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	Dmítri	Dmítri's sword			then	to the breast of fair Princess	tree rules
2	listen in a quote	infinitive	Dmítri not said here	Eléna				the Fair obl	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	Výslav			our hands	now	our nmod:poss	tree rules
4	take in a quote	future	we	Výslav				to our father; Tsar Výslav obj	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme výslav=Destination
5	does in a quote	present	Výslav						tree rules
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	Výslav not said here		Výslav				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	find in a quote	past	we	Výslav				the Bird of Light and the maned steed conj	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic

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 11, sentence 56

The tree

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 56