Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 118

So the old man went to collect them, and said, “If only the Sun would warm the grain, and the moon show its light on it, and Crow Crowson help me to get the groats, I would give my eldest daughter to the little Sun, and my middle daughter to the Moon, and my youngest to Crow Crowson.”

Who acts: old man, Sun, moon · What happens: go, collect, say, warm, show, crow · To what, where: middle daughter, groats, grain, light, Crowson, old man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Sun, moon), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 collect	mark
7	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 collect	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 warm	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 warm	punct
14	If	if	SCONJ	_	19 warm	mark
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 Sun	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sun	det
17	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 warm	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 warm	aux
19	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grain	det
21	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 warm	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 show	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 show	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moon	det
25	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 show	nsubj
26	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 light	nmod:poss
28	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 show	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 show	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Crow	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Crow	cc
33	Crow	crow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 show	parataxis
34	Crowson	Crowson	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Crow	obj
35	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 Crow	xcomp
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 help	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 get	mark
38	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 help	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 groats	det
40	groats	groat	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 get	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 give	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 give	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 give	aux
44	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 Crow	conj
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 daughter	nmod:poss
46	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	47 daughter	amod
47	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 give	iobj
48	to	to	ADP	_	51 Sun	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Sun	det
50	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 Sun	amod
51	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 give	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 daughter	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 daughter	cc
54	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 daughter	nmod:poss
55	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 daughter	amod
56	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
57	to	to	ADP	_	59 Moon	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Moon	det
59	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 daughter	nmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 youngest	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 youngest	cc
62	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 youngest	nmod:poss
63	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 went	parataxis
64	to	to	PART	_	65 Crow	mark
65	Crow	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	63 youngest	csubj
66	Crowson	Crowson	PROPN	Number=Sing	65 Crow	obj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
68	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the old man	my middle daughter to the Moon				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	collect	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	groats = groat				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the old man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	warm a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	the Sun	the grain				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grain=Patient
5	show in a quote	present	the moon	MOON's light		light		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent light=Recipient
6	crow in a quote	infinitive		Crowson				tree rules
7	help in a quote	infinitive		the old man = man				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme
8	get in a quote	to-infinitive	the old man = man not said here	the groats				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer groat=Stimulus
9	give in a quote	would	the old man = man		my eldest daughter		to the little Sun	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to sun=Recipient
10	crow in a quote	to-infinitive		Crowson				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowson=Topic
11	light in a quote		MOON					nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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 37, sentence 118

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 118