Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 27

If he touched the little hand of anyone, that hand was gone: if he touched the little nose of anyone, that nose was done for: his play was insatiate and terrible.

Who acts: ALYÓSHA, hand, play · What happens: touch, be, do, play · To what, where: little hand, little nose, nose

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ALYÓSHA, hand, play), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 touched	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touched	nsubj
3	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hand	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 touched	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 hand	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 touched	punct
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 hand	det
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	cop
13	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 touched	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 touched	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 touched	nsubj
17	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 nose	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 nose	amod
20	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 touched	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 anyone	case
22	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 nose	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 done	punct
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 nose	det
25	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 done	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux:pass
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 touched	conj
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 insatiate	mark
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 for	punct
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 play	nmod:poss
31	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 insatiate	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 insatiate	cop
33	insatiate	insatiate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 done	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 terrible	cc
35	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 insatiate	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch a condition, not said to happen	past	ALYÓSHA = alyósha	the little hand of anyone		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Co-Theme
2	is	past	that hand		gone property	tree rules
3	touch a condition, not said to happen	past	ALYÓSHA = alyósha	the little nose of anyone		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nose=Co-Theme
4	do	past · passive		that nose		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	is	past	ALYÓSHA's play		insatiate property	tree rules
6	be		ALYÓSHA's play not said here			tree rules
7	play		ALYÓSHA = alyósha			nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 20, sentence 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 27