Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 122

But the Fool did not eat the apple, but sat in a corner and whispered, “Roll, roll, roll, little apple, on the silver saucer, and show me all the cities and the fields, all the woods and the seas, and the heights of the hills and the fairness of heaven.”

Who acts: Fool · What happens: not eat, sit, whisper, show · To what, where: apple, corner, Roll, silver saucer, cities, me · 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 (Fool), 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	_	6 eat	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fool	det
3	Fool	Fool	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 eat	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 apple	det
8	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 corner	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 corner	det
14	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 whispered	cc
16	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Roll	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Roll	punct
19	Roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 whispered	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 roll	punct
21	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Roll	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 roll	punct
23	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Roll	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 apple	punct
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 apple	amod
26	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Roll	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saucer	punct
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 saucer	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 saucer	det
30	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saucer	compound
31	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 whispered	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 show	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 show	cc
34	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 eat	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 show	iobj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 cities	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 cities	det
38	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 show	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 fields	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 fields	det
41	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 cities	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 woods	punct
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 woods	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 woods	det
45	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 cities	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 seas	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 seas	det
48	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 cities	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 heights	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 heights	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 heights	det
52	heights	height	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	parataxis
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 hills	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 hills	det
55	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 heights	nmod
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 fairness	cc
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 fairness	det
58	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 heights	conj
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 heaven	case
60	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 fairness	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	52 heights	punct
62	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · do-support	the Fool	the apple			the heights of the hills and the fairness of heaven parataxis	tree rules
2	sit	past				a corner		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
3	whisper speech: assert	past		Roll and roll and roll and little apple		the silver saucer		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roll=Topic
4	show in a quote	infinitive	the Fool not said here	all cities and the fields and all woods and the seas	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient city=Topic

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 122

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 122