Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 83

“I should have been delighted to go with you to the village feast, but then the geese might come to some harm.

Who acts: geese · What happens: delight, go, come · To what, where: Saviour, village feast, harm

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 (geese), 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	_	6 delighted	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 delighted	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 delighted	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 delighted	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 delighted	aux:pass
6	delighted	delight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 delighted	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 go	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 feast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feast	det
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feast	compound
14	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 come	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 geese	det
19	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 delighted	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 harm	case
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 harm	det
24	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	delight in a quote	should · perfect · passive		the Saviour = saviour				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	go in a quote	to-infinitive			the village feast		with you	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial_Location
3	come in a quote	might	the geese		some harm	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial_Location

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 83

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 83