Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 57

But the Evil One was tempting the envious pope—how he should manage to tell nothing to the old man, but to cure her by himself, and so get all the gold and silver for himself.

Who acts: Evil One, pope · What happens: tempt, manage, tell, cure, get · To what, where: envious pope, nothing, old man, head, gold · 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 (Evil One, pope), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 tempting	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 One	det
3	Evil	Evil	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 One	compound
4	One	One	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tempting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tempting	aux
6	tempting	tempt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pope	det
8	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pope	amod
9	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tempting	obj
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 manage	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 manage	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 manage	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 manage	aux
14	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tempting	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 manage	xcomp
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 tell	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 man	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cure	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 cure	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	25 cure	mark
25	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 manage	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cure	obj
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 himself	case
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 cure	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 get	cc
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 get	advmod
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 manage	conj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 gold	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 gold	det
35	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 silver	cc
37	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gold	conj
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 himself	case
39	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 get	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tempting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tempt	past · progressive	the Evil One	the envious pope			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pope=Recipient
2	manage	should	pope				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	pope not said here	nothing	the old man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to man=Recipient
4	cure	to-infinitive	pope not said here	head		by pope	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source
5	get	infinitive	pope not said here	all gold and silver		for pope	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent gold=Theme for himself=Source

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 57

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 57