Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 84

So the good horse said, “Iván the merchant’s son, let me go free at will, and do you pull three little hairs out of my tail: whenever I can be of service to you burn a single hair, and I shall appear at once in front of you, like a leaf in front of the grass.

Who acts: good horse, Iván, you, service · What happens: say, let, go, pull, be, burn · To what, where: good horse, three little hairs, tail, you, single hair, 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 (good horse, Iván, you, service), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Iván	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Iván	punct
8	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 let	nsubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 merchant	det
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 merchant	case
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Iván	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Iván	punct
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 go	xcomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 will	case
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 free	aux
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pull	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pull	cc
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 pull	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 pull	nsubj
24	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 hairs	nummod
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hairs	amod
27	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pull	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	31 tail	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 tail	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tail	nmod:poss
31	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pull	obl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 service	punct
33	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 service	advmod
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 service	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 service	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 service	cop
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 service	case
38	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 burn	nsubj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 you	case
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 service	nmod
41	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 hair	det
43	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 hair	amod
44	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 burn	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 appear	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 appear	cc
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 appear	nsubj
48	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 appear	aux
49	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 burn	conj
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 once	case
51	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	49 appear	obl
52	in	in	ADP	_	53 front	case
53	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 appear	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 you	case
55	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 front	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 leaf	punct
57	like	like	ADP	_	59 leaf	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 leaf	det
59	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 appear	obl
60	in	in	ADP	_	61 front	case
61	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 leaf	nmod
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 grass	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 grass	det
64	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 front	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the good horse					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive	Iván	the good horse = horse				tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	the good horse = horse not said here				free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pull in a quote	present · do-support	you	three little hairs		my tail		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hair=Theme out tail=Initial_Location
5	is in a quote	can	the good horse = horse		you		of service; whenever property	tree rules
6	burn in a quote	present	service	a single hair				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
7	appear in a quote	shall	the good horse = horse			front of you	like a leaf in front of the grass	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=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 84

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 84