Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 93

So the old man said to his wife, “Now, old lady; amongst other folks the hens lay eggs, but our hen lays jewels: what shall we do?”

Who acts: old man, hens, hen, we · What happens: say, lay, do · To what, where: wife, eggs, other folks, jewels · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old man, hens, hen, we), 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	_	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wife	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lady	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 lady	punct
11	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 lady	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lady	punct
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lady	amod
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
16	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	18 folks	case
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 folks	amod
18	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lay	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hens	det
20	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
22	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lay	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lays	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 lays	cc
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hen	nmod:poss
26	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lays	nsubj
27	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 lay	conj
28	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lays	obj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 do	obj
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the old man		ZAMORÝSHEK's wife and old lady			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lay in a quote	present	the hens	eggs		other folks		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme amongst folk=Destination
3	lay in a quote	present	our hen	jewels				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Result
4	do in a quote	shall	we				what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 93

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 93