Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 52

And he, in the meantime, went to his old evil-tempered housekeeper and bade her devise some means of eliciting whether Vasíli Vasílyevich were a maiden.

Who acts: King, some, Vasíli, Tsar · What happens: go, temper, mean, elicit, be, devise · To what, where: devise, old tempered housekeeper

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, some, Vasíli, Tsar), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 meantime	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 meantime	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 meantime	det
6	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 he	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 meantime	punct
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	15 housekeeper	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 housekeeper	nmod:poss
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 housekeeper	amod
12	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tempered	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 evil	punct
14	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 housekeeper	amod
15	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bade	cc
17	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 housekeeper	conj
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 devise	nmod:poss
19	devise	devise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 means	nsubj
21	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 went	parataxis
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 eliciting	mark
23	eliciting	elicit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 means	advcl
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	29 maiden	mark
25	Vasíli	Vasíli	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 maiden	nsubj
26	Vasílyevich	Vasílyevich	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Vasíli	flat
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 maiden	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 maiden	det
29	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eliciting	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	King	Tsar's devise	King's old tempered housekeeper and bade		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to housekeeper=Initial_Location
2	temper	participle				evil compound	tree rules
3	mean	present	some				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	elicit	gerund	some not said here				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition
5	is	past	Vasíli			maiden property	tree rules
6	devise		Tsar				nom devise «possession transitive»: poss=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 18, sentence 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 52