Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 58

“Wait, you shall have birds as well,” answered the poor man, and he said at once:

Who acts: you, poor man, man · What happens: wait, have, answer, say · To what, where: birds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, poor man, man), 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 Wait	punct
2	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Wait	parataxis
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
8	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	6 have	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 as	fixed
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Wait	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Wait	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 said	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait in a quote	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have in a quote	shall	you	birds	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
3	answer speech: assert	past	the poor man		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 33, sentence 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 58