Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 49

“Things will now go better,” said the peasant, “for if I were to take you back with me, Sorrow, you would drink up all of this money!”

Who acts: Things, peasant, you · What happens: go, say, take back, drink up · To what, where: you, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Things, peasant, you), 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	_	5 go	punct
2	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 go	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 peasant	det
11	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 take	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 take	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 take	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
18	to	to	PART	_	19 take	mark
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 take	obj
21	back	back	ADV	_	19 take	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 take	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drink	punct
25	Sorrow	sorrow	INTJ	_	29 drink	discourse
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Sorrow	punct
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 drink	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 drink	aux
29	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 take	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 drink	compound:prt
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 drink	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 money	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 money	det
34	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 all	nmod
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	future	Things			now	well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the peasant					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take back a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the peasant = peasant		you		with the peasant = peasant	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
4	drink up in a quote	would	you	all of this money				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=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 36, sentence 49

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 49