Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 63

“Look: the soldier thought of marrying a Tsarévna; the two elder daughters both declined and said they would rather marry a devil than the soldier.

Who acts: you, soldier, two elder daughters, daughters · What happens: look, think, marry, decline, say · To what, where: Tsarévna, devil · 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 (you, soldier, two elder daughters, daughters), 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	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldier	det
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Look	conj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 marrying	mark
8	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 thought	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Tsarévna	det
10	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 marrying	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 declined	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 daughters	det
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 daughters	nummod
14	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 daughters	amod
15	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 declined	nsubj
16	both	both	ADV	_	17 declined	advmod
17	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Look	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 declined	conj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 marry	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 marry	aux
22	rather	rather	ADV	_	23 marry	advmod
23	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 devil	det
25	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 marry	obj
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 soldier	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 soldier	det
28	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 devil	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	think speech: other in a quote	past	the soldier			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	marry in a quote	gerund	the soldier not said here	a Tsarévna		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tsarévna=Patient
4	decline in a quote	past	the two elder daughters		both property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the two elder daughters not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	marry in a quote	would	daughters = daughter	a devil	than the soldier	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devil=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 63

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 63