Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 43

Then you are to answer, ‘I am beating you for this reason: let me see the Swan,[9] the fair maiden; let her body glint through her wings, and through her body let her bones appear, and from bone to bone let the marrow run like a flowing string of pearls.’”

Who acts: you, I, me, body, bones, marrow · What happens: be, beat, let, see, appear, run · To what, where: you, me, Swan, body glint, Yúda, wings

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 (you, I, me, body), 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	5 answer	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 answer	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 answer	mark
5	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beating	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 beating	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 beating	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 beating	aux
10	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 answer	advcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 beating	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 reason	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 reason	det
14	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beating	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	parataxis
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Swan	det
20	Swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 9	punct
22	[	[	PUNCT	_	23 9	punct
23	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 see	obl
24	]	]	PUNCT	_	23 9	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 maiden	det
26	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 maiden	amod
27	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 let	punct
29	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 let	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 let	obj
31	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 glint	compound
32	glint	glint	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 let	obj
33	through	through	ADP	_	35 wings	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wings	nmod:poss
35	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 let	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 let	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 let	cc
38	through	through	SCONJ	_	41 let	mark
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 body	nmod:poss
40	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 let	nsubj
41	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	parataxis
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 let	obj
43	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 appear	nsubj
44	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 let	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 let	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 let	cc
47	from	from	ADP	_	48 bone	case
48	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 let	obl
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 bone	case
50	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 bone	nmod
51	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	44 appear	parataxis
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 marrow	det
53	marrow	marrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 let	obj
54	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 let	xcomp
55	like	like	ADP	_	58 string	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 string	det
57	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	58 string	amod
58	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 run	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 pearls	case
60	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 string	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct
62	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you				then	answer property	tree rules
2	beat	present · progressive	I	you				for this reason	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme
3	let	infinitive		me					tree rules
4	see	infinitive	me not said here	the Swan				9 obl; the fair maiden obj	tree rules
5	let	infinitive		body glint	Yúda	Yúda's wings			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient glint=Theme
6	let	past	Yúda's body	Yúda					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	appear	present	bones						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	let	infinitive		the marrow		bone to bone			tree rules
9	run	present	the marrow not said here					like a flowing string of pearls	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	flow	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 43

The tree

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 43