Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 44

One day the old man began to cut firewood, took them to the opposite side of the island and said: “Ivánushka, my well-doer, I must now speak with you.”

Who acts: old man, Ivánushka, king · What happens: begin, cut, take, say, speak · To what, where: firewood, things, opposite side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. 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, Ivánushka, king), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cut	mark
8	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	parataxis
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 side	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 side	det
15	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 side	amod
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 island	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 island	det
19	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 side	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Ivánushka	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Ivánushka	punct
24	Ivánushka	Ivánushka	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 doer	punct
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 doer	nmod:poss
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 doer	advmod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 well	punct
29	doer	doer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Ivánushka	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 speak	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 speak	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 speak	aux
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 speak	advmod
34	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	parataxis
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 speak	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 speak	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the old man			day		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cut	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	firewood				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset firewood=Product
3	take	past		things = thing	the opposite side of the island			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to side=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	Ivánushka					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	speak speech: other in a quote	must	the king = king			now	with you	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-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 22, sentence 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 44