Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 53

The old evil housekeeper said: “Hang an embroidery-frame in your palace, at the right hand, and a gun on the left; if she is really Vasilísa Vasílyevna, she will, as soon as ever she enters the palace, first take hold of the frame; but, if it is Vasíli Vasílyevich he will lay hands on the gun.”

Who acts: old evil housekeeper, Tsar, frame, Vasíli Vasílyevich · What happens: say, hang, be, enter, take, lay · To what, where: embroidery frame, palace, Vasilísa, hold, Vasíli Vasílyevich, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old evil housekeeper, Tsar, frame, Vasíli Vasílyevich), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 housekeeper	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 housekeeper	amod
3	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 housekeeper	compound
4	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Hang	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Hang	punct
8	Hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 frame	det
10	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 frame	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 embroidery	punct
12	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Hang	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 palace	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 palace	nmod:poss
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Hang	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hand	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 hand	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hand	det
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hand	amod
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Hang	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gun	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gun	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 gun	det
24	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Hang	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 left	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 left	det
27	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gun	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 Vasilísa	punct
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 Vasilísa	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 Vasilísa	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 Vasilísa	cop
32	really	really	ADV	_	33 Vasilísa	advmod
33	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Hang	obl
34	Vasílyevna	Vasílyevna	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Vasilísa	flat
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 will	punct
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 will	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 Vasilísa	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 soon	punct
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 soon	advmod
40	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 Hang	advmod
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 enters	mark
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	44 enters	advmod
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 enters	nsubj
44	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 soon	advcl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 palace	det
46	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 enters	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 take	punct
48	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	49 take	advmod
49	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Hang	conj
50	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 take	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 frame	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 frame	det
53	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hold	nmod
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	64 lay	punct
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	64 lay	cc
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 but	punct
57	if	if	SCONJ	_	61 Vasílyevich	mark
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 Vasílyevich	nsubj
59	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 Vasílyevich	cop
60	Vasíli	Vasíli	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 Vasílyevich	compound
61	Vasílyevich	Vasílyevich	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 lay	nsubj
62	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 lay	nsubj
63	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 lay	aux
64	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
65	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 lay	obj
66	on	on	ADP	_	68 gun	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 gun	det
68	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 lay	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	64 lay	punct
70	”	"	PUNCT	_	64 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old evil housekeeper					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hang in a quote	infinitive		a embroidery frame	your palace		at the right hand; a gun on the left obl; soon property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent frame=Theme in palace=Destination
3	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Tsar	Vasilísa				tree rules
4	enter in a quote	present	Tsar	the palace		ever		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination
5	take in a quote	infinitive		hold of the frame			first property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
6	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	frame	Vasíli Vasílyevich				tree rules
7	lay in a quote	future	Vasíli Vasílyevich	hands	the gun		Vasílyevich nsubj	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on gun=Destination
8	hold in a quote			the frame				nom hold «act transitive»: of=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 18, sentence 53

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 53