Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 79

And then the sister was left all alone once more; when her brothers came home, she said: “Brothers, we lack nothing save three things.”

Who acts: brothers, hag, we · What happens: leave, come, say, lack, save · To what, where: sister, Brothers, nothing, three things · 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 (brothers, hag, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 left	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 left	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sister	det
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux:pass
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 alone	advmod
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 left	advmod
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 left	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brothers	nmod:poss
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	parataxis
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 Brothers	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 Brothers	punct
22	Brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 said	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lack	punct
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 lack	nsubj
25	lack	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 lack	obj
27	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 lack	conj
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 things	nummod
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 save	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		the sister	then	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come	past	hag's brothers			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	hag	Brothers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	lack in a quote	present	we	nothing			tree rules
5	save in a quote	present	we not said here	three things			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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 32, sentence 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 79