Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 36

“Come with me into the open field, otherwise I will shatter your den to pieces!” said the tanner, and began clattering at the doors.

Who acts: tanner · What happens: come, shatter, say, begin, clatter · To what, where: open field, den, doors · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tanner), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Come	obl
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 field	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 field	det
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 field	amod
8	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shatter	punct
10	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	13 shatter	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 shatter	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 shatter	aux
13	shatter	shatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 den	nmod:poss
15	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shatter	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 pieces	case
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shatter	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tanner	det
22	tanner	tanner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	conj
26	clattering	clatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 began	xcomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 doors	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 doors	det
29	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 clattering	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive			the open field	with the tanner = tanner	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location
2	shatter in a quote	future	the tanner = tanner	your den		to pieces result; otherwise property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent den=Patient to piece=Result
3	say speech: express	past	the tanner				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	begin	past	the tanner not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	clatter	gerund	the tanner not said here		the doors		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=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 32, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 36