Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 75

But the old man answered and said: “Oh, Ivánushka, Ivánushka, you have had little experience; and I tell you that any single one of these bricks is worth more than all the wares of which the robbers plundered you!”

Who acts: old man, you, single one, robbers · What happens: answer, say, have, tell, be, plunder · To what, where: little experience, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old man, you, single one, robbers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Ivánushka	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Ivánushka	punct
10	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	12 Ivánushka	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Oh	punct
12	Ivánushka	Ivánushka	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Ivánushka	punct
14	Ivánushka	Ivánushka	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Ivánushka	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 had	aux
18	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 Ivánushka	parataxis
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 experience	amod
20	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tell	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 tell	nsubj
24	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	ccomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 worth	mark
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 one	det
28	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 one	amod
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 worth	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 bricks	case
31	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 bricks	det
32	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 worth	cop
34	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tell	ccomp
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 worth	obj
36	than	than	ADP	_	39 wares	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 wares	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wares	det
39	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 worth	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 plundered	obl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 robbers	det
43	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 plundered	nsubj
44	plundered	plunder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 wares	acl:relcl
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 plundered	obj
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: express	past	the old man				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man not said here			Ivánushka ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have in a quote	present · perfect	you	little experience			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experience=Patient
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the old man = man		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	is in a quote	present	any single one of this bricks			than all wares; worth property	tree rules
6	plunder in a quote	past	the robbers	you		of all wares	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Source of which=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 75

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 75