Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 9

So, when the third year came to an end, he laid a pile of money on the table: “Take, my dear man, as much as your soul desires.

Who acts: third year, master, soul · What happens: come, lay, take, desire · To what, where: end, pile, table, dear man

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 (third year, master, soul), 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	_	13 laid	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 year	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 year	amod
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 laid	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laid	nsubj
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pile	det
15	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 money	case
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pile	nmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 table	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 table	det
20	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laid	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Take	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 Take	punct
23	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 laid	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 man	punct
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 man	nmod:poss
26	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Take	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 much	punct
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Take	obj
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 desires	mark
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 soul	nmod:poss
33	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 desires	nsubj
34	desires	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 much	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	the third year			to a end	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
2	lay	past	master	a pile of money	the table		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pile=Theme on table=Destination
3	take in a quote	infinitive	master not said here	my dear man			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Theme much=Destination
4	desire in a quote	present	your soul				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 9