Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 46

“Then, fair youth, when you arrive at your village, take the cross off from your neck and pass it round the horse three times, and then hang the cross on its head.”

Who acts: you · What happens: arrive, take off, pass, hang · To what, where: village, cross, neck, head, fair youth

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 (you), 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 youth	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 youth	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Then	punct
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 youth	amod
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 arrive	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 arrive	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 arrive	nsubj
9	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 youth	parataxis
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 village	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 village	nmod:poss
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arrive	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
14	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 arrive	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cross	det
16	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	14 take	compound:prt
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 neck	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 neck	nmod:poss
20	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pass	cc
22	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 take	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pass	obj
24	round	round	ADP	_	26 horse	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 horse	det
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pass	obl
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 times	nummod
28	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pass	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hang	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hang	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 hang	advmod
32	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 arrive	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cross	det
34	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hang	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 head	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 head	nmod:poss
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hang	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 youth	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 youth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive in a quote	present	you		your village			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take off in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the cross	your neck			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme from neck=Initial_Location
3	pass in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	cross		time	round the horse	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory
4	hang in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the cross	cross's head	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cross=Theme on head=Destination

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 46

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Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 46