Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 64

When the servants take you into the broad courtyard, and he comes up to you and lays his hand on you, stand still: do not prick your ear.

Who acts: servants, servant, you · What happens: take, come up, lay, stand, not prick · To what, where: you, broad courtyard, hand, ear

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, servant, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 take	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servants	det
3	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 stand	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 courtyard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 courtyard	det
8	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 courtyard	amod
9	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 comes	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 comes	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 comes	nsubj
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 comes	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 comes	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lays	cc
18	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 comes	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hand	nmod:poss
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lays	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 lays	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
24	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	still	still	ADV	_	24 stand	advmod
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 prick	punct
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 prick	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 prick	advmod
29	prick	prick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 stand	conj
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 ear	nmod:poss
31	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 prick	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	the servants	you		the broad courtyard			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme into courtyard=Destination
2	come up	present	servant		you				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
3	lay	present	servant not said here	servant's hand				on you	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on you=Destination
4	stand	imperative	you not said here				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not prick	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	your ear					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=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 38, sentence 64

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 64