Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 56

“Iváshko,” said the dragon, “go down that ladder; and I will let you down into the three kingdoms, and in each of them you will see a fair maiden.”

Who acts: Iváshko, each · What happens: say, go down, let down, see · To what, where: dragon, ladder, you, three kingdoms, fair maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iváshko, each), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Iváshko	punct
2	Iváshko	Iváshko	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Iváshko	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Iváshko	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 ladder	det
13	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 let	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 let	aux
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	18 let	compound:prt
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 kingdoms	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 kingdoms	det
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 kingdoms	nummod
24	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 let	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 see	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 each	case
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	33 see	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 each	nmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 see	aux
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 maiden	det
35	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 maiden	amod
36	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Iváshko	the dragon			tree rules
2	go down in a quote	infinitive		that ladder		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	let down in a quote	future	Iváshko	you	the three kingdoms		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	see in a quote	future	each of kingdoms	a fair maiden		you nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus

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 27, sentence 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 56