Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 146

Now it so happened that the father of the Little Fool was there, heard the words of the shepherd, wanted to lay hold of the pipe, when the pipe began singing, “Play on, play on, little pipe: this is my father; console him with my mother.

Who acts: it, father, pipe, this · What happens: happen, be, hear, want, lay, begin · To what, where: words, hold, little pipe, father, shepherd, pipe · 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 (it, father, pipe, this), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happened	nsubj
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 happened	advmod
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 there	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 father	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 there	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Fool	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Fool	det
10	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Fool	amod
11	Fool	Fool	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 father	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 there	cop
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 happened	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 words	det
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 heard	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 shepherd	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shepherd	det
20	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 words	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wanted	punct
22	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 lay	mark
24	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wanted	xcomp
25	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 pipe	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pipe	det
28	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hold	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 began	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 began	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pipe	det
32	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 began	nsubj
33	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lay	advcl
34	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 began	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Play	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 Play	punct
37	Play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 singing	xcomp
38	on	on	ADP	_	37 Play	compound:prt
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 play	punct
40	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 Play	conj
41	on	on	ADV	_	40 play	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 pipe	punct
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 pipe	amod
44	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Play	obl
45	:	:	PUNCT	_	49 father	punct
46	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 father	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 father	cop
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 father	nmod:poss
49	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	conj
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 console	punct
51	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 father	conj
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 console	obj
53	with	with	ADP	_	55 mother	case
54	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 mother	nmod:poss
55	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 father	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it		now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the father of the Little Fool			there property	tree rules
3	hear	past		the words of the shepherd			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	want	past					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	lay not said to happen	to-infinitive		hold of the pipe			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
6	begin	past	the pipe				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	sing speech: express	gerund	the pipe not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	play on in a quote	infinitive	the pipe not said here	little pipe			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	play on in a quote	infinitive	the pipe not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is a in a quote	present	this	my father and console father		with my mother; my nmod:poss; console father conj	tree rules
11	word			the shepherd			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient
12	hold			the pipe			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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 146

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 146