Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 126

“A terrible sorcerer has died, and at night he rises out of the grave, ranges about the village and terrifies the boldest: why, he might give you trouble.”

Who acts: terrible sorcerer, sorcerer · What happens: die, rise, terrify, give · To what, where: grave, boldest, trouble, you

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terrible sorcerer, sorcerer), 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	_	6 died	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sorcerer	det
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sorcerer	amod
4	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 died	aux
6	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 give	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rises	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rises	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rises	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rises	nsubj
12	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 died	parataxis
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 grave	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 grave	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 grave	det
16	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rises	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ranges	punct
18	ranges	range	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grave	conj
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 village	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 village	det
21	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ranges	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 terrifies	cc
23	terrifies	terrify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 rises	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boldest	det
25	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 terrifies	obj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 why	punct
27	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 terrifies	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 give	aux
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	die in a quote	present · perfect	a terrible sorcerer					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	rise in a quote	present	sorcerer			the grave and ranges about the village	night	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out grave=Location
3	terrify in a quote	present	sorcerer not said here	the boldest				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bold=Experiencer
4	give in a quote	might	sorcerer	trouble	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient trouble=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 2, sentence 126

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 126