Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 27

So he then turned sharp to the left and marched up to the _stárosta_[3] and bade him assemble all the peasants and prepare one hundred cartloads of aspen boughs.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: turn, march up, assemble, prepare · To what, where: left, 3, bade, hundred cartloads

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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	_	4 turned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 turned	advmod
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turned	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 left	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 left	det
8	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 marched	cc
10	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 marched	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 stárosta	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stárosta	det
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 stárosta	punct
15	stárosta	stárosta	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marched	obl
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 marched	punct
17	[	[	PUNCT	_	18 3	punct
18	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 marched	obl
19	]	]	PUNCT	_	18 3	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 assemble	cc
21	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 assemble	obl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bade	obj
23	assemble	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 peasants	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 peasants	det
26	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 assemble	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 prepare	cc
28	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 assemble	conj
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 hundred	compound
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 cartloads	nummod
31	cartloads	cartload	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 prepare	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 boughs	case
33	aspen	aspen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 boughs	amod
34	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 cartloads	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	soldier		the left	then	sharp property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to left=Trajectory
2	march up	past	soldier not said here	3			to the stárosta result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stárosta=Result
3	assemble	present	soldier not said here	bade soldier			all peasants obj	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent peasant=Theme
4	prepare	infinitive	soldier not said here	hundred cartloads of aspen boughs				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cartload=Patient

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 3, sentence 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 27