Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 82

Then the husband said, “Now, my wife, here is a peasant who has promised to tell stories all night long, on the condition that you are not to make any remarks or interruptions.”

Who acts: husband, wife, peasant, you · What happens: say, be, promise, tell, not be · To what, where: peasant, stories, condition · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, wife, peasant, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 husband	det
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 peasant	punct
7	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 peasant	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Now	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 peasant	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wife	punct
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 wife	advmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 peasant	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 peasant	det
15	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 promised	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 promised	aux
18	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 peasant	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 tell	mark
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 promised	xcomp
21	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tell	obj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 long	obl:unmarked
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 tell	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 condition	punct
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 condition	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 condition	det
28	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	obl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 make	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 make	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 make	cop
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 make	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 make	mark
34	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 condition	acl
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 remarks	det
36	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 make	obj
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 interruptions	cc
38	interruptions	interruption	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 remarks	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 peasant	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 peasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the husband			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	my wife	a peasant		now		tree rules
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	present · perfect	a peasant					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	a peasant not said here	stories	the condition		long property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
5	not is in a quote	present	you				any remarks or interruptions obj; make property	tree rules

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 39, sentence 82

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 82