Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 55

But the third said: “I want the King himself: I would bear him two sons and one daughter.”

Who acts: third · What happens: say, want, bear · To what, where: King, two sons · 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 (third), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 third	det
3	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 want	obj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 want	obj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 bear	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 bear	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 bear	aux
15	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bear	obj
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 sons	nummod
18	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bear	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 daughter	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 daughter	nummod
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sons	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 bear	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the third			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want in a quote	present	the third = third	the King		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme himself=Attribute
3	bear in a quote	would	the third = third	two sons and one daughter	King	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary son=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 32, sentence 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 55