Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 60

let twelve ducks and one drake swim on the pond, and let them have one feather of gold and another of silver, and let the drake have a diamond tuft on his forehead!”

Who acts: you, one drake, ducks, drake · What happens: let, swim, have · To what, where: twelve ducks, pond, ducks, one feather, diamond tuft, forehead

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, one drake, ducks, drake), 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	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ducks	nummod
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 let	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 swim	cc
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 drake	nummod
6	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swim	nsubj
7	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 let	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 pond	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pond	det
10	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swim	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 let	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 feather	nummod
17	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 gold	case
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feather	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 another	cc
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 gold	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 silver	case
23	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 another	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 let	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 drake	det
28	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	nsubj
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 let	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 tuft	det
31	diamond	diamond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tuft	amod
32	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 forehead	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 forehead	nmod:poss
35	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tuft	nmod
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 let	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	twelve ducks		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Theme
2	swim	present	one drake		the pond	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pond=Trajectory
3	let	infinitive	you not said here	ducks = duck		tree rules
4	have	infinitive	ducks = duck not said here	one feather of gold		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
5	let	infinitive				tree rules
6	have	present	the drake	a diamond tuft	drake's forehead	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuft=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 33, sentence 60

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 60