Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 171

So a new game commenced; and then the little devil had to pry in every nook and come back and tell the old devil: “It’s no use, grandfather—we have no more.”

Who acts: little devil, game, we · What happens: commence, have, pry, come back, tell, be · To what, where: new game, nook, old devil, use, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little devil, game, 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 commenced	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 game	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 game	amod
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 commenced	nsubj:pass
5	commenced	commence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 had	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 devil	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 devil	amod
11	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 commenced	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 pry	mark
14	pry	pry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 nook	case
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 nook	det
17	nook	nook	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pry	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 come	cc
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pry	conj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 devil	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 devil	amod
25	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 use	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 use	punct
28	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 use	nsubj
29	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 use	cop
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 use	det
31	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 grandfather	punct
33	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 use	conj
34	—	-	PUNCT	_	36 have	punct
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 have	nsubj
36	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 commenced	parataxis
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 more	det
38	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 have	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 commenced	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 commenced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	commence	participle · passive		a new game					tree rules
2	have	past	the little devil				then		tree rules
3	pry	to-infinitive	the little devil not said here			every nook			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come back	infinitive	the little devil not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the little devil not said here		the old devil				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent devil=Recipient
6	is a in a quote	present	game	no use and grandfather				grandfather conj	tree rules
7	have in a quote	present	we	no more					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

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 12, sentence 171

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 171