Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 34

So Iván Tsarévich went and lay down, and Vasilísa the Wise went to a little window and cried in a thunderous voice, “Hail, my faithful servants, go and level the deep ravines, take away the sharp stones, sow the ground with full-eared rye, so that in the morning it shall grow so high that a jackdaw might hide in it.”

Who acts: Iván, Vasilísa, ground, jackdaw · What happens: go, lay down, cry, level, take away, sow · To what, where: little window, Hail, thunderous voice, deep ravines, sharp stones, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, Vasilísa, ground, jackdaw), 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 went	advmod
2	Iván	Iván	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
3	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Iván	flat
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lay	cc
6	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	conj
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 lay	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
10	Vasilísa	Vasilísa	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Wise	det
12	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Vasilísa	appos
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 window	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 window	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 window	amod
17	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cried	cc
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 voice	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 voice	det
22	thunderous	thunderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 voice	amod
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cried	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Hail	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 Hail	punct
26	Hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cried	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 servants	punct
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 servants	nmod:poss
29	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 servants	amod
30	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 Hail	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 go	punct
32	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 cried	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 level	cc
34	level	level	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 go	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ravines	det
36	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 ravines	amod
37	ravines	ravine	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 level	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 take	punct
39	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 go	conj
40	away	away	ADP	_	39 take	compound:prt
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 stones	det
42	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 stones	amod
43	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 take	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sow	punct
45	sow	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 take	advcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 ground	det
47	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sow	obj
48	with	with	ADP	_	52 rye	case
49	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 eared	amod
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 full	punct
51	eared	eared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 rye	amod
52	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sow	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 grow	punct
54	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	61 grow	mark
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 so	fixed
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 morning	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 morning	det
58	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 grow	obl
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 grow	nsubj
60	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 grow	aux
61	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 go	conj
62	so	so	ADV	_	63 high	advmod
63	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 grow	xcomp
64	that	that	SCONJ	_	68 hide	mark
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 jackdaw	det
66	jackdaw	jackdaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 hide	nsubj
67	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 hide	aux
68	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 high	advcl
69	in	in	ADP	_	70 it	case
70	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 hide	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
72	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Iván					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay down	infinitive	Iván not said here				down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	Vasilísa		a little window			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to window=Initial_Location
4	cry speech: express	past	Iván not said here	Hail and my faithful servants	a thunderous voice			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go in a quote	infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	level in a quote	infinitive		the deep ravines				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ravine=Patient
7	take away in a quote	infinitive		the sharp stones				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
8	sow in a quote	present		the ground			with eared rye	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Destination with rye=Theme
9	grow in a quote	shall	ground			morning	high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	hide in a quote	might	a jackdaw		ground			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=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 30, sentence 34

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 34