Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 39

The old woman saw the cloth and admired it, and said: “Oh, my child! nobody except the Tsar could ever wear such fine linen; I will take it to Court.”

Who acts: old woman, nobody · What happens: see, admire, say, wear, take · To what, where: cloth, such fine linen, linen, Court · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, nobody), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cloth	det
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 admired	cc
8	admired	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 admired	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 child	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 child	punct
15	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	18 child	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Oh	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 child	nmod:poss
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 child	punct
20	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 wear	nsubj
21	except	except	ADP	_	23 Tsar	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Tsar	det
23	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 nobody	nmod
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 wear	aux
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 wear	advmod
26	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 child	parataxis
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 linen	amod
28	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 linen	amod
29	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wear	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 take	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 take	aux
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	parataxis
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 take	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 Court	case
36	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 take	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the old woman	the cloth				tree rules
2	admire	past	the old woman not said here	cloth				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	say speech: express	past	the old woman not said here				my child ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	wear in a quote	could	nobody except the Tsar	such fine linen		ever		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent linen=Source
5	take in a quote	future	the old woman = woman	linen	Court			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to court=Destination

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 15, sentence 39

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 39