Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 146

“Come,” he said, “come and try to enliven the Princess Without a Smile: any one who succeeds shall gain her as his wife.”

Who acts: father, one · What happens: come, say, try, enliven, succeed, gain · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, one), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 try	cc
11	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 come	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 enliven	mark
13	enliven	enliven	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 try	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 enliven	obj
16	Without	without	ADP	_	18 Smile	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Smile	det
18	Smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 enliven	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 gain	punct
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gain	nsubj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 succeeds	nsubj
23	succeeds	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 one	acl:relcl
24	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 gain	aux
25	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gain	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 wife	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wife	nmod:poss
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gain	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	try in a quote	infinitive				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	enliven not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		the Princess	without a Smile	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer
6	succeed in a quote	present	any one			vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	gain in a quote	shall	any one	PRINCESS	as father's wife	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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 16, sentence 146

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Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 146