Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 88

One year later he said to his wife: “Dear wife, beautiful Tsarévna, I should like to go home with you.”

Who acts: Iván · What happens: say, like, go · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Iván), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 year	nummod
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 said	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wife	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 wife	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 wife	punct
11	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wife	amod
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Tsarévna	punct
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Tsarévna	amod
15	Tsarévna	Tsarévna	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 wife	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 like	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 like	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 like	aux
19	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wife	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 like	xcomp
22	home	home	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 go	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 wife	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 wife	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Iván	Iván's wife	Dear wife ccomp; late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
2	like in a quote	should	Iván			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Iván not said here		with Iván's wife = wife; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=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 38, sentence 88

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 88