Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 26

In the morning the serpent said to her, “If you are now weary, fair maiden, go to your father and your sisters: spend a day with them, and in the evening come back to me.

Who acts: serpent, daughter · What happens: say, be, go, spend, come back · To what, where: daughter, serpent · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent, daughter), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 serpent	det
5	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 maiden	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 maiden	punct
11	If	if	SCONJ	_	15 weary	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 weary	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 weary	cop
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 weary	advmod
15	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 maiden	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 weary	punct
17	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 maiden	amod
18	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
20	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 maiden	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 father	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sisters	cc
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sisters	nmod:poss
26	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 father	conj
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 spend	punct
28	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spend	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 spend	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 come	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 come	cc
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 evening	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 evening	det
37	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 come	obl
38	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 spend	advcl
39	back	back	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 me	case
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 come	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the serpent	daughter	morning	weary fair maiden ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	daughter		now	weary property	tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive				to your father and your sisters	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
4	spend in a quote	infinitive			day	with maiden	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	come back in a quote	present		the serpent = serpent	evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_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 34, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 26