Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 36

But Svyatogór answered: “If you had come down again I should have breathed on you with a fatal breath, and you would have lain down to sleep beside me.”

Who acts: Svyatogór, you · What happens: answer, come down, breathe, lie down, sleep · To what, where: Svyatogór · 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 (Svyatogór, you), 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	_	3 answered	cc
2	Svyatogór	Svyatogór	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 breathed	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 breathed	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	9 come	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 breathed	advcl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 breathed	nsubj:pass
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 breathed	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 breathed	aux
15	breathed	breathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 answered	ccomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 breathed	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 breath	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 breath	det
20	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 breath	amod
21	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 breathed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lain	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lain	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 lain	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 lain	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 lain	aux
27	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 answered	conj
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 lain	compound:prt
29	to	to	PART	_	30 sleep	mark
30	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 lain	advcl
31	beside	beside	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 sleep	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Svyatogór				tree rules
2	come down a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	you		again	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	breathe in a quote	should · perfect · passive		Svyatogór		on you; with a fatal breath	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on you=Destination
4	lie down in a quote	would · perfect	you				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			beside Svyatogór	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 36