Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 81

“Now,” the rich man said, and rubbed his hands, “I shall have finer beer than the poor man.”

Who acts: rich man · What happens: say, rub, have · To what, where: hands, finer beer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rubbed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rubbed	cc
11	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rubbed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 rubbed	conj
19	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 beer	amod
20	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	than	than	ADP	_	24 man	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beer	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the rich man		now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rub	past		man's hands			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	have in a quote	shall	the rich man = man	finer beer		than the poor man	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=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 35, sentence 81

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 81