Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 70

Now this peasant was a bold fellow: so he took the coffin lid and set it by his _teléga_, and went to see what would come of it.

Who acts: peasant, Iván · What happens: be, take, set, go, see, come · To what, where: bold fellow, coffin lid, lid · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (peasant, Iván), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 peasant	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 peasant	det
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fellow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fellow	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fellow	det
6	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fellow	amod
7	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 took	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fellow	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lid	det
13	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lid	compound
14	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 set	cc
16	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 took	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 set	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 teléga	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 teléga	nmod:poss
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 teléga	punct
21	teléga	teléga	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 went	xcomp
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 come	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 see	ccomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 come	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this peasant	a bold fellow		tree rules
2	take	past	Iván	the coffin lid		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
3	set	infinitive	Iván not said here	lid	by Iván's teléga	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by teléga=Destination
4	go	past	Iván not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see	to-infinitive	Iván not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	come	would			of lid; what nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_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 2, sentence 70

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 70