Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 117

“I should then roll the apple on the saucer, and should speak words which an old woman taught me in return for my giving her a loaf of white bread.”

Who acts: sisters, old woman · What happens: roll, speak, teach, give · To what, where: apple, saucer, words, sisters, return, loaf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, old woman), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 roll	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 roll	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 roll	aux
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 roll	advmod
5	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 apple	det
7	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roll	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 saucer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 saucer	det
10	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 apple	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 speak	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 speak	cc
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 speak	aux
14	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 roll	conj
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 speak	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 taught	obj
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taught	nsubj
20	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 words	acl:relcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 taught	iobj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 return	case
23	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taught	obl
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 giving	mark
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 giving	nsubj
26	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 return	acl
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 giving	iobj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 loaf	det
29	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 giving	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 bread	case
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bread	amod
32	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 loaf	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 roll	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 roll	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	roll in a quote	should	the sisters = sister	the apple		the saucer	then	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent apple=Theme on saucer=Trajectory
2	speak speech: other in a quote	should	the sisters = sister not said here	words				tree rules
3	teach speech: other in a quote	past	a old woman	words	the sisters = sister	return		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient which=Topic
4	give in a quote	gerund	the sisters = sister	a loaf of white bread	woman			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient loaf=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 5, sentence 117

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 117