Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 93

And they went to lie at night, and they bade him heat the bath, carry water, and lay the bed.

Who acts: lord · What happens: go, lie, bade, heat, carry, lay · To what, where: peasant, bath, water, bed

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lie	mark
5	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lie	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bade	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bade	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bade	nsubj
11	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bade	obj
13	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bade	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bath	det
15	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heat	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 carry	punct
17	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 heat	conj
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carry	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lay	cc
21	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 heat	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bed	det
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go	past	lord			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie	to-infinitive	lord not said here		night	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bade	past	lord	peasant		tree rules
4	heat	infinitive	lord not said here	the bath		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bath=Patient
5	carry	infinitive	lord not said here	water		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
6	lay	infinitive	lord not said here	the bed		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Result

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 25, sentence 93

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 93