Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 21

You need only burrow down in the ground: that is how you are going to pass the winter!”

Who acts: You, that · What happens: burrow down, be, pass · To what, where: ground

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, that), 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	4 burrow	nsubj
2	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 burrow	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 burrow	advmod
4	burrow	burrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 burrow	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burrow	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 going	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 going	cop
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 going	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 burrow	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 pass	mark
17	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 going	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 winter	det
19	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pass	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 burrow	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 burrow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	burrow down	present	You	the ground			vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in ground=Location
2	is	present · progressive	that			you nsubj; go property	tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	that not said here		winter		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 31, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 21