Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 88

You must have gone utterly mad: our children are sitting down at home without any bread, and you buy a hen which you must feed!”

Who acts: You, children, hen · What happens: go, sit down, buy, feed · To what, where: home, hen

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, children, hen), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	xcomp
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 sitting	punct
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sitting	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sitting	aux
11	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gone	conj
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 sitting	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
15	without	without	ADP	_	17 bread	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 bread	det
17	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 buy	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 buy	cc
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 buy	nsubj
21	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hen	det
23	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 buy	obj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 feed	nsubj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 feed	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 feed	aux
27	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hen	acl:relcl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	must · perfect	You			mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	present · progressive	our children		home	without any bread; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location
3	buy	present	you	a hen			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme
4	feed	must	a hen			you nsubj	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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 7, sentence 88

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 88