Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 58

So the Tsar told the peasant, “Tell your foundling that he is to come to me neither naked nor dressed, nor on foot nor on horseback, neither by day nor by night, neither in the courtyard nor in the street.”

Who acts: Tsar, peasant · What happens: tell, be, dress · To what, where: peasant, foundling, Tsar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsar, peasant), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tsar	det
3	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 peasant	det
6	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
9	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 foundling	nmod:poss
11	foundling	foundling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Tell	obj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 come	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 come	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Tell	ccomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 come	obl
19	neither	neither	ADV	_	20 naked	advmod
20	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 come	advcl
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	22 dressed	cc
22	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 naked	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 foot	punct
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	26 foot	cc
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 foot	case
26	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Tell	obj
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	29 horseback	cc
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 horseback	case
29	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 foot	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 day	punct
31	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	33 day	cc:preconj
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 day	case
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
34	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	36 night	cc
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 night	case
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 day	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 courtyard	punct
38	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	41 courtyard	cc:preconj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 courtyard	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 courtyard	det
41	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	parataxis
42	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	45 street	cc
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 street	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 street	det
45	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 courtyard	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 courtyard	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	41 courtyard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Tsar		the peasant	day	the courtyard nor the street parataxis	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent peasant=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	the Tsar not said here	your foundling			foot nor horseback obj	tree rules
3	is not said to happen, in a quote	present	peasant		the Tsar = tsar		come property	tree rules
4	dress in a quote	participle	peasant not said here					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 6, sentence 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 58