Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 29

Then the poor man went to the peasant, and in accordance with the judgment, asked for the wife, in order that she might remain with him until another child came.

Who acts: poor man, wife, child · What happens: go, ask, remain, come · To what, where: accordance, order

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, wife, child), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 peasant	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 peasant	det
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asked	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 accordance	case
12	accordance	accordance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 judgment	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 judgment	det
15	judgment	judgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 accordance	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 accordance	punct
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 wife	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wife	det
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 order	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 order	case
23	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 remain	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 remain	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 remain	aux
27	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 order	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 remain	obl
30	until	until	SCONJ	_	33 came	mark
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	32 child	det
32	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 remain	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the poor man			then	to the peasant	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to peasant=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	the poor man not said here		accordance with the judgment		for the wife; in order	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	remain	might	wife	order not said here			with man	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme order=Attribute
4	come	past	another child					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 21, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 29