Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 37

But there are to be lions moulded on to the buttons, and there are to be shepherds embroidered on to the buttonholes that should have sung and warbled.

Who acts: lions, shepherds · What happens: be, mould on, embroider, sing, warble · To what, where: lions, shepherds, buttonholes

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lions, shepherds), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 are	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
3	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 lions	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 lions	cop
6	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 are	nsubj
7	moulded	mould	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lions	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 moulded	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 buttons	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 buttons	det
11	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 moulded	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 are	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 are	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 are	expl
15	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 are	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 shepherds	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 shepherds	cop
18	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 are	nsubj
19	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 shepherds	acl
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 buttonholes	case
21	to	to	ADP	_	20 on	fixed
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 buttonholes	det
23	buttonholes	buttonhole	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 embroidered	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 sung	nsubj:pass
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 sung	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 sung	aux
27	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 buttonholes	acl:relcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 warbled	cc
29	warbled	warble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 sung	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	lions		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		lions			tree rules
3	mould on	participle		lions not said here		to the buttons	tree rules
4	does	present	shepherds		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive		shepherds			tree rules
6	embroider	participle		shepherds not said here	the buttonholes		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on buttonhole=Destination
7	sing speech: express	should · perfect · passive		the buttonholes			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
8	warble	participle					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 4, sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 37