Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 149

So the old man steamed himself thoroughly, went back home and told his wife to heat the bath at night.

Who acts: old man · What happens: steam, go back, tell, heat · To what, where: man, wife, bath · 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), 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 steamed	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 steamed	nsubj
5	steamed	steam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 steamed	obj
7	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	5 steamed	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 steamed	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 wife	nmod:poss
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 heat	mark
17	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bath	det
19	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heat	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 night	case
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heat	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 steamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	steam	past	the old man	man			thoroughly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	go back	past	the old man not said here				home property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past	the old man not said here		man's wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
4	heat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	the bath		night		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bath=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 37, sentence 149

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 149