Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 40

I would rather remain a maiden; I would rather tie myself up with the Devil than go with him.”

Who acts: I · What happens: remain, tie up, go · To what, where: maiden, myself

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 remain	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 remain	aux
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 remain	advmod
4	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 maiden	det
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remain	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 tie	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tie	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tie	aux
10	rather	rather	ADV	_	11 tie	advmod
11	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 remain	conj
12	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 tie	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 tie	compound:prt
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 Devil	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Devil	det
16	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 tie	obl
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tie	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remain	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 remain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remain	would	I	a maiden		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme maiden=Attribute
2	tie up	would	I	myself	with the Devil	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent myself=Patient with devil=Co-Patient
3	go	infinitive	I not said here		with devil	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary

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 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 40