Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 120

But Ványa also very much wanted to look at Princess Eléna the Fair, and so he wept sorely, and he went to his father’s grave, and his father heard him in his last home, and he came up to him, shook off the grey earth from his forehead, and said, “Do not grieve, Vanyúshka; I will aid you in your sorrow.”

Who acts: Ványa, father, I, your · What happens: want, look, weep, go, hear, come up · To what, where: grave, Ványa, last home, grey earth, Vanyúshka, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ványa, father, I, your), 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	_	6 wanted	cc
2	Ványa	Ványa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 Eléna	case
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Eléna	compound
11	Eléna	Eléna	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 look	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fair	det
13	Fair	Fair	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Eléna	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wept	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wept	cc
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 wept	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wept	nsubj
18	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wanted	conj
19	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	18 wept	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wept	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	28 grave	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grave	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 father	case
28	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heard	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 heard	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 father	nmod:poss
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	nsubj
33	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wanted	parataxis
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 heard	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 home	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 home	nmod:poss
37	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 home	amod
38	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 came	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 came	cc
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 came	nsubj
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 heard	conj
43	up	up	ADV	_	42 came	advmod
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 came	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 shook	punct
47	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 came	conj
48	off	off	ADP	_	51 earth	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 earth	det
50	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 earth	amod
51	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 shook	obl
52	from	from	ADP	_	54 forehead	case
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 forehead	nmod:poss
54	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 earth	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 said	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 said	cc
57	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 shook	parataxis
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 grieve	punct
59	“	"	PUNCT	_	62 grieve	punct
60	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	62 grieve	aux
61	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 grieve	advmod
62	grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 said	ccomp
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 Vanyúshka	punct
64	Vanyúshka	Vanyúshka	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 grieve	obj
65	;	;	PUNCT	_	68 aid	punct
66	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	68 aid	nsubj
67	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 aid	aux
68	aid	aid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	parataxis
69	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	68 aid	obj
70	in	in	ADP	_	72 sorrow	case
71	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	72 sorrow	nmod:poss
72	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 aid	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	68 aid	punct
74	”	"	PUNCT	_	68 aid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	Ványa					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ványa not said here				at Princess Eléna	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at eléna=Theme
3	weep	past	Ványa				sorely property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	Ványa			Ványa's father's grave		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial_Location
5	hear	past	Ványa's father	Ványa		Ványa's last home		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	come up	past	Father		Ványa			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
7	shake off	past	Father not said here	the grey earth from Ványa's forehead				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent earth=Patient
8	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	not grieve in a quote	infinitive · do-support		Vanyúshka				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus vanyúshka=Experiencer
10	aid in a quote	future	I		you	your sorrow		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
11	sorrow in a quote		your					nom sorrow «feeling 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 26, sentence 120

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 120