Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 81

“No, brother; take these few pence—that will be enough for you; you will get a pint and can drink it out on your way home and go to sleep.”

Who acts: you, that · What happens: take, be, get, drink out, go · To what, where: few pence, pint, way, sleep

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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	_	6 take	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 take	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 No	vocative
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 pence	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pence	amod
9	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obj
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 enough	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 enough	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 enough	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 enough	cop
14	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 take	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 enough	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 get	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 get	aux
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pint	det
22	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drink	cc
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 drink	aux
25	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 get	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 drink	obj
27	out	out	ADP	_	25 drink	compound:prt
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 way	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 way	nmod:poss
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drink	obl
31	home	home	ADV	_	25 drink	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 go	cc
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 get	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 sleep	case
35	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 go	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	imperative	you not said here	this few pence			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pence=Theme
2	is in a quote	future	that			for you; enough property	tree rules
3	get in a quote	future	you	a pint			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pint=Stimulus
4	drink out in a quote	can	you not said here	pint	your way	home property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	go in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		sleep		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location

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 7, sentence 81

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 81