Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 101

One good old woman saw him, and said: “Come to me, you poor old beggar; I will feed and rest you.”

Who acts: One good old woman, you · What happens: see, say, come, beggar, feed, rest · To what, where: Rich, One good old woman, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One good old woman, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 woman	nummod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Come	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Come	punct
12	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beggar	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 beggar	nsubj
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beggar	amod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beggar	amod
19	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Come	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 feed	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 feed	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 feed	aux
23	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Come	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rest	cc
25	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 feed	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 rest	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Come	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	past	One good old woman	Rich		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	One good old woman not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	infinitive			One good old woman = woman	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
4	beggar in a quote		you			tree rules
5	feed in a quote	future	One good old woman = woman			vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
6	rest in a quote	infinitive	One good old woman = woman not said here	you		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme

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 8, sentence 101

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 101