Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 139

“No, brother,” the lad replied, “however much I may wish it; for I should get such a fine cross as you are carrying, and can give you nothing in return.”

Who acts: brother, you · What happens: reply, wish, get, carry, give · To what, where: lad, fine cross, nothing, you, return · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, you), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 brother	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lad	det
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	nsubj
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wish	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 wish	punct
12	however	however	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	16 wish	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 wish	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 wish	aux
16	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 replied	ccomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wish	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 get	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 get	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 get	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 get	aux
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wish	parataxis
23	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	26 cross	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cross	det
25	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cross	amod
26	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 get	obj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 carrying	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 carrying	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 carrying	aux
30	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 get	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 give	cc
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 give	aux
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wish	conj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 give	iobj
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 give	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 return	case
38	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 nothing	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 wish	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	brother				the lad nsubj	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wish in a quote	may	brother	lad				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	get in a quote	should	brother	such fine cross				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cross=Stimulus
4	carry in a quote	present · progressive	you					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	give in a quote	can	brother not said here	nothing	you	return		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient nothing=Theme

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 19, sentence 139

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 139