Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 61

I never saw such girlish trash in my father’s house, and I have never heard of it, and yet you find it hanging in Tsar Bárkhat’s palace!”

Who acts: I, you, trash · What happens: not see, not hear, find, hang · To what, where: such girlish trash, house, trash, palace

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 (I, you, trash), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trash	amod
5	girlish	girlish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trash	amod
6	trash	trash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 house	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 father	case
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heard	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 heard	advmod
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 saw	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 find	cc
22	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 find	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 find	nsubj
24	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 find	obj
26	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 find	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 palace	case
28	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 palace	nmod:poss
29	Bárkhat	Bárkhat	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Tsar	flat
30	’s	's	PART	_	28 Tsar	case
31	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hanging	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 hanging	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past	I	such girlish trash	my father's house			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trash=Stimulus
2	not hear	present · perfect	I				of trash	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
3	find	present	you	trash		yet		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
4	hang	gerund	trash not said here		Tsar's palace			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in palace=Location

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 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 61