Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 44

So he sent for a painter and told him to paint on the doors of the smithy a devil who should be exactly the same as the one he had seen in the church.

Who acts: DEVIL · What happens: send, tell, paint, be, see · To what, where: DEVIL, doors, one, church · 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 (DEVIL), 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	_	3 sent	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 painter	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 painter	det
6	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 paint	mark
11	paint	paint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 doors	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 doors	det
14	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 paint	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 smithy	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 smithy	det
17	smithy	smithy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 doors	nmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 devil	det
19	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 smithy	appos
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 same	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 same	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 same	cop
23	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	25 same	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 same	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 devil	acl:relcl
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 one	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 same	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seen	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 seen	aux
31	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 one	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 church	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 church	det
34	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seen	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	DEVIL				for a painter	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	DEVIL not said here		DEVIL			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	paint not said to happen	to-infinitive	DEVIL not said here			the doors of the smithy		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on door=Destination
4	is	should	a devil				as the one; exactly, same property	tree rules
5	see	past · perfect	DEVIL	the one not said here		the church		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 44