Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 29

“No, I shall not be late,” said the maiden, the merchant’s daughter, and descended the steps; there was a barouche ready for her, and she sat down.

Who acts: I, barouche, daughter · What happens: not be, say, descend, be, sit down · To what, where: maiden, steps · 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 (I, barouche, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 late	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 late	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 late	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 late	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 late	cop
8	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 late	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 late	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 maiden	det
13	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 daughter	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 merchant	det
16	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 daughter	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 merchant	case
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 maiden	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 descended	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 descended	cc
21	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 steps	det
23	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 descended	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ready	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 barouche	det
28	barouche	barouche	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ready	nsubj
29	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ready	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sat	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sat	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sat	nsubj
35	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
36	down	down	ADP	_	35 sat	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	shall	I		late property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the maiden and the merchant's daughter		tree rules
3	descend	past		the steps		vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
4	is	past	a barouche		for daughter; ready property	tree rules
5	sit down	past	daughter			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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 34, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 29