Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 39

You have a dog: when you go home let it go in front of you, and you will see what will come to it.”

Who acts: You, dog · What happens: have, go, let, see, come · To what, where: dog, front · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, dog), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 go	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 let	advcl
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 front	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 see	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	conj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 come	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 see	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	You	a dog			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
2	go	present	you			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	infinitive		dog			tree rules
4	go	infinitive	dog not said here		front of you		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location
5	see	future	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	come	future			front	what nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location

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 28, sentence 39

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 39