Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 3

Then the Goose said, “I will sit in the middle of this spruce, lie on one wing, and cover myself over with the other, and the cold cannot touch me.

Who acts: Goose, cold · What happens: say, sit, lie, cover over, not touch · To what, where: middle, one wing, Goose · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Goose, cold), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Goose	det
3	Goose	Goose	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sit	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 sit	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 sit	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sit	aux
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 middle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 middle	det
12	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sit	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 spruce	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 spruce	det
15	spruce	spruce	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 middle	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lie	punct
17	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sit	advcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 wing	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 wing	nummod
20	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lie	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cover	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cover	cc
23	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sit	conj
24	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 cover	obj
25	over	over	ADP	_	23 cover	compound:prt
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 other	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cover	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 touch	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 touch	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cold	det
32	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 touch	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 touch	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 touch	advmod
35	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sit	conj
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 touch	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Goose			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sit in a quote	future	the Goose = goose		the middle of this spruce			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
3	lie in a quote	present	the Goose = goose not said here		one wing			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wing=Location
4	cover over in a quote	infinitive	the Goose = goose not said here	the Goose = goose			with the other	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent myself=Destination with other=Theme
5	not touch in a quote	can	the cold	the Goose = goose				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-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 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 3