Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 82

When the Tsarévich had gone down into the well the servant shut down the lid, and said: “You be my servant, and I will be the Tsarévich; or I will never let you come out!”

Who acts: Tsarévich, servant, You, I · What happens: go down, shut down, say, be, not let, come out · To what, where: well, lid, servant, Tsarévich, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarévich, servant, You, I), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsarévich	det
3	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 said	advcl
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 well	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 well	det
9	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 servant	det
11	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 well	conj
12	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 servant	acl
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 shut	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lid	det
15	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shut	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 servant	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 servant	punct
21	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 servant	nsubj
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 servant	cop
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 servant	nmod:poss
24	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Tsarévich	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Tsarévich	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 Tsarévich	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 Tsarévich	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 Tsarévich	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Tsarévich	det
31	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 servant	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 let	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 let	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 let	aux
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 let	advmod
37	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 let	obj
39	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 let	xcomp
40	out	out	ADV	_	39 come	advmod
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go down	past · perfect	the Tsarévich		the well and the servant	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	shut down	participle	the servant not said here	the lid			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lid=Patient
3	say speech: express	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	infinitive	You	my servant		my nmod:poss	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	future	I	the Tsarévich			tree rules
6	not let in a quote	future	I	you			tree rules
7	come out in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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 17, sentence 82

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 82